Armando Iannucci on The Death of Stalin, a comedy of panic
Some of the scenes in Armando Iannucci\u2019s new film, \u2018The Death of Stalin,\u2019 seem a bit over the top. But Iannucci says says he actually had to downplay the real story to make it believable. The political satirist behind \u2018The Thick of It\u2019 and \u2018Veep\u2019 tells us about his first time working on a project based on real people and how he had to work to balance comedy and terror when writing about the chaos that followed Stalin's death in 1953.