Pandemonium

Go back to that day, when the bat first smote EuropeAnd he, our Hero, to lull it into thinking us unpreparedDeliberately sat at home, in a country house, finishingA book, and gathering his family in games and sport Lest the bat gain sense of how ready he was. ( A feint he learnt on rugby's field). Then, luring that flying fury across our shore And into these islands, our hero struck and fellUpon his friend, young Matt, which, like any mat Splayed upon the ground, gives surface protectionTo feet that stamp upon his front, and welcome smilesTo those who enter his domain and drop their dirt.Armando Iannucci - the talent behind Alan Partridge, Veep, The Thick of It, The Death of Stalin and more - now turns his gaze on the pandemic,Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock, Dominic Cummings and Dido Harding all fall under his withering and witty scrutiny. The result is a bitingly original epic satire like no other, appropriate to these extraordinary times.