Representation of british social and political life in audiovisual content

The article examines the problem of reflecting the socio-political life of Great Britain in an audiovisual product. The example for the analysis was the television programme produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation "BBC" "Not the Nine O'Clock News", which covers the time period of the 70s and 80s of the XX century. The results of the study have established that the main means of achieving the communicative goal between the authors of the TV programme and the viewer in reproducing the problems of life of ordinary Britons in a specific socio-political situation is to analyse the social and political processes in British society through the ironic and sarcastic reflection of the British political beau monde. In addition, it has been determined that the main object of ridicule was such aspects of life as taxation and the inconsistency of political parties' election programmes with the expectations of the electorate.