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History Will Judge You (with Stewart Lee)

2/26/202626 min

Stewart Lee joins Armando again this week. With a by-election on, we look away from the present day and think about how history will judge politicians.

Some of the language in the recent Tony Blair documentary piques Armando's interest, and we also look at how Boris Johnson and Gordon Brown use language (or lack thereof) to cement their own post-premiership legacies.

We also look at the politic-speak creeping into Royal statements, Gerry Adams on a trampoline, and the furore over language at the BAFTAs

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Clips

Showing 10 of 11
Blair Unmasked By Himself
Believe What You Know
Missing Third Act Redemption
Will AI Write History?
Victors Replaced By Algorithms
A Generation Reassesses The Queen
‘Reign Change’ As Spin
The Checkbox Problem
Gordon Brown’s Quiet Goodness
Naked Trampolining As Redemption

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Stewart Lee· Guest0:00

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  5. Armando Iannucci· Host0:49

    [upbeat music] Hello and welcome to Strong Message Here from BBC Radio 4, a guide to the use and abuse of political language. I'm Armando Iannucci. I'm joined this week once again by Stuart Lee.

  6. Stewart Lee· Guest1:04

    Hello.

  7. Armando Iannucci· Host1:04

    Hello. And this week we can't talk about current politics because there's a by-election on and people might think, well, what's the point of you being on? That's the whole point of the program. But actually, there's about two or three thousand years worth of politics we can delve into.

  8. Stewart Lee· Guest1:20

    Oh, I didn't know we were allowed to do it from any time.

  9. Armando Iannucci· Host1:22

    Yes.

  10. Stewart Lee· Guest1:23

    I'd have done different stuff- Oh, yeah ... when I'd been on if I'd known.

  11. Armando Iannucci· Host1:25

    Oh, right.

  12. Stewart Lee· Guest1:26

    [laughs] I thought it had to be... It's hard to keep up with everything. If you could just do

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