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Strong Message Here with Armando Iannucci - 5th June 2025

Comedy writer Armando Iannucci decodes the utterly baffling world of political language.

Weird Turkish Barber Shops

5th June 2025

This week, Helen Lewis is away, so comedian and writer Stewart Lee joins Armando to look at Robert Jenrick’s flashy video in which he takes aim at ‘weird Turkish barber shops’, among other things. They discuss how the way politicians, entertainers and journalists are changing and overlapping, and Armando recalls the time he read politician’s jokes in a comedy club (spoiler alert, it was a disaster).

Hurty Words

25th September 2025

Stewart Lee returns to the show, to join Armando in discussing ‘hurty words’.

With Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, and in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, free speech is in the spotlight again. Those who railed against ‘cancel culture’ are now getting into ‘consequence culture’. We also discuss how Marvel’s superheroes might respond to the actions of their new owners, and whether you can pray in your own homes in this country anymore (spoiler alert, you can).

Sound Editing by Chris Maclean
Production Coordinator – Sarah Nicholls
Executive Producer – Pete Strauss

Produced by Gwyn Rhys Davies. A BBC Studios Production for Radio 4.



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