Taking
a similar format to Chris Morris & Lee & Herring's radio
shows that were broadcast around the same times, Armando Iannucci
was flanked throughout these shows by Peter Baynham & David
Schneider.
Also making appearances (with varying degrees of regularity)
are Richard Herring, Stewart Lee, Rebecca Front & Steve
Coogan.
Iannucci's
considerable editing skills are given showcases with The
Best Of....Simon Bates' "Our Tune" while his
imagination runs riot over a number of subjects & phone
in ideas.
Rich, Stew, Peter & the others contribute characters &
seemingly ad-libbed ideas througout the shows. Broadcast over
two series (the first consisting of two half-hour shows, and
the second of four hour-long outings) Iannucci's tenure of the
airwaves was considerably shorter than either Lee & Herring's
or Morris's - but don't overlook these wonderful shows, because
- as Armando himself says - "Anything you ever heard
on radio one over the past five years is about to be put through
a blender & restitched together the wrong way round."