8: Armando Iannucci
Sue Perkins: An hour or so with...
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🗓️ 21 November 2019
⏱️ 56 minutes
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This conversation was recorded in the summer of 2017.
Produced by Dan Quick
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| 0:00.0 | At G.S.K, we believe that prevention is the best medicine. Prevention is pioneering new medicines to reduce |
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| 0:14.2 | conditions from progressing to more serious complications because preventing |
| 0:17.9 | disease is the best possible outcome for all of us and is why GSK |
| 0:22.6 | unites science, technology and talent |
| 0:25.2 | to get ahead of disease together. |
| 0:27.2 | Visit gSK.com to learn more. This conversation was recorded in the summer of 2017. Orlando's latest film, The Personal History of David Copperfield, |
| 0:45.0 | will be released in the 24th of January, 2020. So, Amanda, when... people like me can always remember their first ever television job, that's easily done. |
| 1:02.0 | But lots of people can't remember their second ever television job,'s easily done but lots of people can't remember their second |
| 1:03.5 | ever television job but I can because my second ever television job and I remember with |
| 1:07.9 | this with incredible terrifying clarity was being stuck in a helicopter going over the palace of |
| 1:14.2 | their size throwing 40 kilos of button mushrooms. That's right. And it was you |
| 1:18.7 | or doing? It was on Friday night armistice or maybe it was a Saturday armistice then. |
| 1:23.2 | But you were basically creating a mushroom cloud, I seem to remember. |
| 1:26.2 | It was of real mushrooms. |
| 1:27.2 | It was a literal actual mushroom cloud. |
| 1:30.0 | See in those days we thought it was funny to take a phrase that was fundamentally a metaphor |
| 1:35.2 | and then do a kind of what about if we actually literally did it. |
| 1:39.5 | And then Ed Miliband came along with his actual carved and stone slab of promises if you remember. |
| 1:46.0 | And that's when you know you just thought this has gone. |
| 1:50.0 | Politics is now being written by people who think they are as good as sketch writers and as |
| 1:57.3 | funny as comedians. |
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