Armando Iannucci

BBC Radio 4 - Strong Message Here, I Understand the Anxiety (with Ria Lina and Coco Khan) How do we cope with increasingly scary news?

#Radio I Understand the Anxiety (with Ria Lina @rialina.com and Coco Khan @cocobyname.bsky.social )
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Do we just want 'bread and peace'? Do we all know too much now?
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In 2020 Nigel Farage said of MPs who defect & refuse a by-election “it’s not right, it’s dishonorable”

I’m sure Mr Farage can’t wait to attend the debate on 16 March and repeat this comment.

New #StrongMessageHere. When is a war not ‘A War?’ How do you pre-taliate? And what is a real person?

While people feel the foundations of their lives are shaking, this deep crisis will continue | Clive Lewis The partisan debate since the Gorton and Denton byelection risks blinding us to the truth. People are rejecting wholesale the way our politics has developed, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

Well worth a read . Clive Lewis on the collapse of Politics itself: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran - bellingcat New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footag...

Read our analysis of the video showing a US Tomahawk missile strike next to Girls’ School in Iran on February 28 here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

New #StrongMessageHere. When is a war not ‘A War?’ How do you pre-taliate? And what is a real person?

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This week, @hugorifkind.bsky.social joins @aiannucci.bsky.social. Are plumbers more 'real' than economists? The parallels between Marco Rubio and the general in Dr Strangelove. And, does 'Epic Fury' mean what Pete Hegseth thinks it does?
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Lovely moment towards the end of this where @aiannucci.bsky.social recalls some genuine improbable farce around Dr. Strangelove. bsky.app/profile/aian...

BBC Radio 4 - Strong Message Here Armando Iannucci and guests decode the utterly baffling world of political language.

If you can, listen to Armando Iannucci on BBC Radio 4 - Strong Message Here share.google/oIENFTOaBps6... Brilliant take on Trump and Iran.

Strong Message Here - Get Real (with Hugo Rifkind) - BBC Sounds Who is a 'real person' in politics? How do politicians use language to change reality?

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Minutes away…

In our stage version of Dr Strangelove we introduced the concept of ‘pretaliation.’

In the Loop (2009) - The mountain of conflict YouTube video by Alexei Djalagonia

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In The Loop (2009) dir. Armando Iannucci

So good I’ve listened twice.

He’s sitting plumped up on the Board of Peace

Some of them are asking for their billion dollars back

The Board of Peace is a Sack of Bollocks

The Board of Peace is a Crock of Shit

The ‘Board Of Peace’ is a
Pipe of Mayhem

Strong Message Here - History Will Judge You (with Stewart Lee) - BBC Sounds Is history still written by the victors? How to people try and control their legacy?

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Strong Message Here - History Will Judge You (with Stewart Lee) - BBC Sounds Is history still written by the victors? How do people try and control their legacy?

New Ep now up. Stewart Lee and I discuss swearing at the BAFTA’s, Blair’s legacy and Gerry Adams trampolining naked with a dog. #StrongMessageHere www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

"Strong Message Here" is an instant download for me. Consistently on point, funny. The presenters corpsing at their own riffs is very infectious, makes you run with ideas you might not if delivered soberly.

Politicians should try it. "Here's our manifesto" [silence, suppressed hilarity]

Yikes! I almost forgot.

Strong Message Here - History Will Judge You (with Stewart Lee) - BBC Sounds Is history still written by the victors? How do people try and control their legacy?

New Ep now up. Stewart Lee and I discuss swearing at the BAFTA’s, Blair’s legacy and Gerry Adams trampolining naked with a dog. #StrongMessageHere www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

BBC Radio 4 - Strong Message Here, History Will Judge You (with Stewart Lee) Is history still written by the victors? How do people try and control their legacy?

If a Tony Blair documentary on channel 4 had ended with Blair trampolining naked with a dog History would judge him better.

Strong Message Here: History Will Judge You (with Stewart Lee)

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If you’re a fan on being bloody furious, Labour MP Karl Turner, on #Radio4Today at 7.10, is worth a bloody listen.

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Stewart Lee and @aiannucci.bsky.social look away from the present day and think about how history will judge politicians. Plus, the politic-speak creeping into Royal statements, and the furore over language at the BAFTAs.
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