Strong Message Here
Hosted by Armando and Armando Iannucci · BBC Radio 4
4.7from 294 ratings
- 98
- Episodes
- 88
- Transcribed
- 294
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Strong Message Here
Armando Iannucci hosts the programme that gives you a cast-iron guarantee to be laser-focused on decoding the baffling world of political language. Each week he'll be joined by a guest to crack open the political phrasebook and attempt to demystify the doublespeak. Why does everything now have to be 'turbo-charged'? What's the difference between a 'pledge' and a 'mission'? Why has my local MP been 'weaponised' and should I be worried? You'll be treated to a crash course in the dark arts of political language from people on the inside who are both baffled and beguiled by it. They'll walk you through the various verbal fiascos of the modern political lexicon so that by the end you'll be oven-ready for an appearance on Newsnight. Armando's erstwhile partner in de-baffling political lexicon, Helen Lewis, is away working in the United States in the autumn and so her seat will be kept warm by a rotating cast of co-hosts. Listen to Strong Message Here on Thursdays on Radio 4 at 9.45am, and an extended version is available on BBC Sounds. Produced by Gwyn Rhys Davies. A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4.
- Publisher
- BBC Radio 4
- Category
- comedy
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 17 Oct 2024
- Latest episode
- 4 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
88 of 98 episodes have a transcript.
4 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Saddam Hussein's Cheesecake Factory (with Nish Kumar)
28 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
In a Surprise Announcement (with Beth Rigby)
21 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Don't Insult My Intelligence (with Chloe Petts and Marianna Spring)
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Saddam Hussein's Cheesecake Factory (with Nish Kumar)
Published 4 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Personal insult. Yeah. It's gross comedy. Yeah. We're in the era of the roast politician. Allied to that, the kind of not wanting to admit defeat. So in elections going, oh, it's rigged. People thought, for me, it must be rigged. That kind of slightly childish form of behavior when somebody's not one. […]
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- Nish Kumar
- Beth Rigby
- Chloe Petts
- Marianna Spring
- Tom Peck
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 44 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 250 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 47 / 100
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- Quality
- 74
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 51
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Armando and Armando Iannucci host the show. Published by BBC Radio 4.
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