The Thick of It - Season 4

First aired: 9/8/2012 7 episodes

More government embarrassment, coalition rows, policy U-turns and frantic spin-doctoring in Armando Iannucci's masterful political satire.

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Episodes

1. Networked Nation

Aired: 9/8/2012

Peter Mannion, the Secretary of State for Social Affairs, gets told to launch his Coalition partner Fergus's new 'Networked Nation' policy at a school.

2. New Advisor

Aired: 9/15/2012

With Glenn gone, Nicola Murray is busy breaking in her new policy advisor, Helen Hatley. When Helen is accidentally photographed holding notes from an ideas meeting, Nicola is understandably angry.

3. Thought Camp

Aired: 9/22/2012

Stewart Pearson is running 'Thought Camp' at a remote country house hotel, as the perfect way to re-engage the party with the creative cloudscape.

4. Hear 2 Hear

Aired: 9/29/2012

With Nicola safely on a train to attend the party's Here 2 Hear in far-flung Bradford, Malcolm is free to launch his latest plot.

5. The Leak

Aired: 10/6/2012

With Nicola Murray and Peter Mannion both on the back foot after the unravelling of the key-worker housing sell-off policy there's inevitably going to be a scramble for the moral high-ground.

6. The Inquiry

Aired: 10/13/2012

The government, opposition and civil service are called before Lord Goolding's inquiry.

7. The Final Reckoning

Aired: 10/20/2012

Dan Miller gets sent on a fact-finding mission to the local cop-shop to press the flesh.