Armando Iannucci

Notebook | 28 September 2017

A mad dash from film fest to book fest – is it possible to fly from JFK to Ilkley?

issue 30 September 2017

I’m currently dwelling on past times. I have a film coming out based on the crazy events that took place in 1953 when Stalin died. (He lay having a stroke on his rug and in his urine for hours since everyone was too scared to knock and see if he was all right.)

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