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A podcast by BBC Radio 4 - Thursdays

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Comedy

27 Episodes

  1. How Much is a Pint of Milk? (with Rob Burley)

    Published: 4/24/2025

  2. Liberation Day (with Soumaya Keynes)

    Published: 4/17/2025

  3. Three Word Slogans (with Cleo Watson)

    Published: 4/10/2025

  4. Fist Emoji, Flag Emoji, Fire Emoji (with Ava Santina Evans)

    Published: 4/3/2025

  5. Seizing the Narrative (with Stephen Bush)

    Published: 3/27/2025

  6. Britain Isn't Working

    Published: 3/20/2025

  7. Be Quiet, Small Man

    Published: 3/13/2025

  8. In the Public Interest?

    Published: 3/6/2025

  9. Everybody's Miserable

    Published: 2/27/2025

  10. The Threat from Within

    Published: 2/20/2025

  11. Build, Baby, Build!

    Published: 2/13/2025

  12. Flying a Kite and Rolling the Pitch (with Rob Hutton)

    Published: 2/6/2025

  13. Trump Derangement Syndrome

    Published: 1/30/2025

  14. Free Speech Is Back!

    Published: 1/23/2025

  15. A Lawyer, Not a Leader

    Published: 1/16/2025

  16. Listeners' Strong Messages

    Published: 1/2/2025

  17. Words of the Year

    Published: 12/20/2024

  18. The Tepid Bath of Managed Decline

    Published: 12/19/2024

  19. Reset, NOT Relaunch

    Published: 12/12/2024

  20. Becoming a Distraction

    Published: 12/5/2024

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In this new series, Helen Lewis and Armando Iannucci investigate which political buzzwords are strong and stable and which are a crock of covfefe.Each week Helen and Armando will crack open the political phrasebook and attempt to decode 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 two people 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.Warning: this podcast features strong political language that some listeners may find nonsensical.Produced by Gwyn Rhys Davies. A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4.