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Dec 2021
26m 51s

Armando Iannucci

THE TIMES
About this episode
Matt Chorley talks to Armando Iannucci, the creator of The Day Today, The Thick of It and Veep. They discuss Iannucci's new book Pandemonium: Some Verses on the Current Predicament and what the new year might hold in store.

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