Armando Iannucci on the prince, politicians and being a 'spare'
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The creator of The Thick of It, Veep and Alan Partridge Armando Iannucci joins us to talk about the current state of politics and his popularisation of its dirty underbelly. Jon and Emily disagree about Harry’s attack on the media. And we discuss the attempt to upend democracy in Brazil and its echoes of Jan 6th riots, just over two years ago.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | The following episode contains very strong language from the outset, but you can't blame either mateless or me this time round. |
| 0:22.2 | Right, people, listen up. It's a fucking lockdown, right now. |
| 0:26.7 | I come off it. We're not in a prison drama, are we? |
| 0:29.9 | We are in a prison drama. This is the fucking Shoshack redemption, right? But with more tunneling |
| 0:33.8 | through shit, no fucking redemption. The man behind the thick of it and in the loop and Veep and Avenue 5 and really so much of our understanding of the political and cultural scene through satire is Amanda Yonucci. |
| 0:50.1 | And he's going to join us on today's news agents to talk about the way this year has started and the way the last one ended, all things political, this side of the pond and the other. |
| 1:02.8 | In other words, both sides of the pond. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:10.2 | The news Agents. |
| 1:12.5 | It's Emily. |
| 1:13.4 | It's John. |
| 1:14.3 | And Lewis was last seen somewhere near Brasilia, I think. |
| 1:17.6 | I don't know what happened there over the weekend. |
| 1:19.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.7 | He was wearing green and yellow. |
| 1:20.9 | Very fredging. |
| 1:22.1 | Not a natural football to border. |
| 1:23.8 | But there we are. |
| 1:25.0 | Anyway, we are obviously going to be talking about a lot of politics |
| 1:29.3 | and a lot of satire because we've got Armando Junucci here with us. But we've also got to talk about |
| 1:35.7 | that interview, or maybe I should say those interviews, because Prince Harry has been ubiquitous this weekend. And I think we may not see |
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