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Armando Iannucci, Rebecca Front, Joanna Scanlan, Ian Martin, Simon Blackwell | The Thick Of It ten years on
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Every year there are TV shows that cut through the noise and grab everyone’s attention, but in this year of political chaos, with three Prime Ministers in three months, one show in particular proved to be an evergreen viral hit, despite last airing ten years ago - Armando Iannucci's biting political satire, The Thick Of It.
To celebrate ten years since the final series of The Thick Of It last aired, we sat down with creator Armando Iannucci, actors Rebecca Front and Joanna Scanlan, and writers Simon Blackwell and Ian Martin, as they discuss how the series came to be, reveal how it was received in the political world and discover how storylines in the series strangely seemed to predict the future...
This episode contains explicit material.