# Armando Iannucci
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Armando Giovanni Iannucci ( yə-NOO-chee; born 28 November 1963) is a Scottish satirist, writer, director, producer and performer.
Born in Glasgow to Italian parents, Iannucci studied at the University of Glasgow followed by the University of Oxford. Starting on BBC Scotland and BBC Radio 4, his early work with Chris Morris on the radio series On the Hour transferred to television as The Day Today.
The Death of Stalin
Steve Buscemi stars as Nikita Khrushchev in "The Death of Stalin," Armando Iannucci's dark satire about the scramble for power after the Soviet dictator's sudden death in 1953. Simon Russell Beale plays the ruthless secret police chief Lavrenti Beria, and Jason Isaacs steals scenes as the blusterin…
Lula's arrest; China: end of an era?; Death of Stalin
The political consequences of the conviction and imprisonment of former president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Is it possible that China, the world's rising superpower, could be undermining its own future status? Armando Iannucci's new film is about Stalin, his death after years of inflic…
3.3 Not the Nine O'Clock News Explained
All British Comedy Explained… to Abigoliah Schamaun, by Tom Salinsky
3.3: Not the Nine O’Clock News. Released 8 October 2026.
An even earlier example of alternative comedy than The Young Ones, this took the moribund sketch comedy form and infused radical new life into it as well as kickstarting at …
Badlands Story Hour Ep. 188: The Death of Stalin
Chris Paul and Burning Bright take on The Death of Stalin, Armando Iannucci's 2017 satire of the power struggle that followed Stalin's death, with Steve Buscemi as Khrushchev, Simon Russell Beale as Beria and Jeffrey Tambor as Malenkov. Chris admits he turned it off years ago without getting what i…
The Hyena
In this episode I’m joined by the Emmy award-winning writer David Quantick to discuss his forthcoming novel The Hyena. We also discuss 90’s music journalism, Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris, Doctor Who, Neil Norman and his Cosmic Orchestra, Leonora Carrington, David Lynch, Leon Trosky, WHSmith’s …
General Election
In this episode, the 2005 General Election inspires Glenn to stand in his school’s own mock election, as the candidate with the most unlikely set of policies ever.
Perhaps best-known for his outrageously brilliant one-liners on Mock The Week, Glenn delivers a tale of comic mishaps and extraordinary…
What Chris Read Instead of The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club - Part 1
Welcome back Readers!
We're back from our summer break and ready to get going again with another rip roaring edition of Things We Read Instead! This month the Girly Swot has challenged the War Bore to read
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers Let's see what our Bore of War th…
Is Politics Beyond Satire? Live with Armando Iannucci, Jan Ravens and Jess Phillips [Archive]
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Has satire lost its power in this new world of fake news and ‘alternative facts’ - when our leaders lie so blatantly and frequently, and still manage to get away with it? Or is humour a more important tool than ever to hold those in power to account? We were joined by celebrated comedy writer and p…
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