Daily – ARMANDO IANNUCCI: “At least Malcolm Tucker had a plan”

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 15 August 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Will it take a satirist to fix Britain’s busted politics? Armando Iannucci – writer of The Thick Of It, The Day Today and Veep – is looking for emergency fixes in the new podcast series Westminster Reimagined. He and producer Anoosh Chakelian talk to former SPAD Ayesha Hazarika about the forces that are breaking our politics. Why are things so bad? What will it take to fix them? And does Malcolm Tucker seem like an idealist by today’s standards? https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast “The Thick Of It charted the rise of the SPAD – now it’s all about the rise of the NEDs, the Non-Executive Director” “Malcolm Tucker was the control freak at the centre of Government… but at least he had a plan.” “Cummings proclaimed that the Civil Service were idiots and had to be replaced by freaks and weirdoes… But all he can do it tear things down.” “All the mockery is inside politics now. The fake news, the lies… In The Thick Of It we show rules being bent. But what if there are no rules?” Presented by Ayesha Hazarika. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:12.4	My guest today are Sat satirist writer and director of many of your favorite films and TV shows including the iconic The Thicke and David Copperfield, Armando Iannucci and Britain editor of the New Statesman
1:26.7	and co-presenter of its rather excellent podcast, Anush Shekelion.
1:31.5	Amando and Anush have teamed up via the New Statesman's podcast on a series called Westminster
1:38.3	reimagined where they try to pick through the wreckage that is our current political situation, analyze the political
1:45.2	titans who currently rule over us and try and work out what the hell is going on.
1:50.3	Welcome to the bunker daily. Amanda, welcome.
1:54.0	What the hell is going on in Westminster?
1:56.0	What have you...
1:58.0	You do this every day, so you tell me.
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