From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

Armando Inucci's new movie, The Death of Stalin, explores the chaos surrounding the sudden death of dictator Joseph Stalin in 1953.

Inucci found that things that really happened were so crazy he had to downplay reality.

That's what he did in a sequence based on real

events that transpired when Radio Moscow learned that Stalin wanted a copy of a live concert

that it was broadcasting one night. The only problem, the station hadn't been recording,

but no one dared to tell Stalin. And what they do is they lock the doors, they tell everyone

we're going to do it again, this time we're going to record it.

The conductor faints because he's so terrified, he faints, he knocks himself unconscious.

In the film, they scow and they bring another conductor in in the middle of the night in his pajamas, and he conducts it.

In real life, they actually got through two more conductors because the first conductor from outside

that they brought in was drunk so they had to get a third conductor but i thought if i put three

conductors in no one will believe it. Yonucci known for his biting satirical takes on modern

British and American politics in the TV shows the thick of it and veep talks about finding a

balance between comedy and terror for the death of Stalin.

And he addresses his reaction to allegations against Jeffrey Tambor, who has a major role in his film.

But first on the news banter, a progress report on Times Up.

Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my partner in banter,

Matt Bellany of the Hollywood Reporter. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So, Times Up. I just did a story,

which we published in The Hollywood Reporter, about the state of play with Times Up. And I will tell you, it's tricky because so many people so passionately want this movement to work.

The thing is, as we reported, Times Up, I don't think they had any inkling of how much fuel there was in the atmosphere that when they lit that match, it just exploded.

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