Feature interview: Scottish satirist Armando Iannucci

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The UK has been swept up in a week of economic and political turmoil, with Prime Minister Liz Truss’s Conservative government coming under increasing pressure over its controversial tax cut plan. Financial markets are roiled, the British pound tanked, and the IMF issued a rare rebuke. Meanwhile in Italy, the electoral success of Giorgia Meloni marks a lurch to the far right that will see a party with roots in neo-fascism enter power for the first time since World War II. And in the US, the latest January 6 hearing had to be postponed due to the devastating arrival of Hurricane Ian. Political chaos often acts as inspiration for Armando Iannucci’s work. He’s beloved for his comedies, looking at the absurdity of politics in The Thick of It, Veep, and The Death of Stalin. His latest work, Avenue 5, is a sitcom about a tourist spaceship thrown off course. But as he explains to Christiane, his goal isn’t just to poke fun at those in power, but increasingly to try and shore up our fragile democratic norms. Also on today's show: Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Jodi Kantor; comedian Hasan Minhaj. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammonpour here's what's coming up.
0:08.0	I want politics to work that's why I spent a lot of time doing things like the thing of it indeed.
0:14.5	Because you know I want to show where has it gone wrong.
0:17.6	Where has politics gone wrong? I speak to the inimitable satirist Armando Iannucci about using his art to
0:25.2	support democracy and his latest hit Avenue 5 then.
0:29.4	Part of the surprise of the reporting is how widespread this is.
0:34.6	Is your boss spying on you?
0:36.8	Journalist Jody Cantor reveals how a growing number of companies
0:40.6	are using secret technology to track employees keystroke by keystroke.
0:46.0	Plus.
0:47.0	This is a personal attack.
0:48.0	When he dropped this photo, he low-key tagged every brown dude in this room.
0:52.0	Do you understand?
0:53.2	The King's jester, fertility, fatherhood, and freedom of speech.
0:57.7	Comedian Hassan Minaj gets into it all
1:00.5	in his new stand-up special. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London.
1:21.6	Where this country has been swept up in a week of economic
1:25.2	and political turmoil. Liz Trust's Conservative government is coming under
1:29.4	increasing pressure over its controversial tax cut plan. Financial markets are
1:35.0	royaled, the British pound has tanked, and it has earned a rare rebuke from
1:40.1	the IMF. All this from just a three-week-old government.
1:44.6	Meanwhile in Italy, the election of Georgia Maloney
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