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.
Episodes
Showing 20 of 27- A Swift Transition (with Matt Forde and Ria Lina)6/24/202634 min
- It's All Signed (with Stewart Lee)6/17/202631 min
- Fanning the Flames (with Hugo Rifkind)6/10/202635 min
- There's Been An Under-Discussion (with Natalie Haynes)6/3/202636 min
- That's Not for Me to Say (with Munya Chawawa)5/28/202635 min
- A Febrile Atmosphere (with Tom Peck)5/21/202640 min
- We Can't Go On Like This (with Kiri Pritchard-McLean and Ayesha Hazarika)5/14/202635 min
- Technological Republic (with Stewart Lee and Carole Cadwalladr)5/7/202634 min
- Game On (with Natalie Haynes)4/30/202628 min
- The Process Was Followed (with Tim Shipman)4/23/202624 min
- Only the Fake News Would Come Up with This (with Amol Rajan)4/16/202635 min
- Righteous Targets for Violence (with Hugo Rifkind)4/9/202638 min
- Deep Disillusionment in This Country (with Stewart Lee)4/8/202628 min
- That's a Great Question (with Stewart Lee in Laugharne)4/2/202628 min
- We're Here to Listen (with Stewart Lee in Laugharne)3/26/202622 min
- You Don't Have to Worry (with Marina Hyde)3/19/202633 min
- I Understand the Anxiety (with Ria Lina and Coco Khan)3/12/202628 min
- Get Real (with Hugo Rifkind)3/5/202633 min
- History Will Judge You (with Stewart Lee)2/26/202626 min
- For the Sake of Transparency (with Natalie Haynes and Michael Gove)2/19/202635 min