Brian and Maggie: Steve Coogan reveals the one thing he admires about Margaret Thatcher
Dubbed the interview that destroyed the Iron Lady's career, Labour MP turned journalist Brian Walden's bruising broadcast ...
The interview that shook Thatcher: ‘Brian and Maggie’ revisits a turning point in Britain’s political history
Margaret Thatcher rarely flinched in the face of scrutiny. But one interview, aired on 29 October 1989, proved to be a ...
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Mrs Thatcher 50 years on: it’s a different country now but she still has lessons for Mrs Badenoch
Fifty years ago this coming Tuesday, Margaret Thatcher became leader of the Conservative Party. She had got there by a two-stage process.
Who was Brian Walden and what happened to him after Margaret Thatcher interview
Brian and Maggie delves into how a single television interview by ex-Labour MP Brian Walden (Steve Coogan) led to the ...
Steve Coogan shines in Brian and Maggie, a love letter to the political interview
In his latest TV show, writer James Graham turns his attention to the 1989 showdown between journalist Brian Walden and ...
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Margaret Thatcher’s secret dealings with the Argentine military junta that invaded the Falklands
The then-prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, held a friendly meeting with a leading member of the junta in Downing Street in 1980 while Britain’s ambassador in Argentina regarded the promotion of ...
The true story behind Channel 4's Brian and Maggie
The drama stars Steve Coogan and Harriet Walter as Brian Walden and Margaret Thatcher, and dramatises the events that led to ...
Brian and Maggie, review: Channel 4 has made a sympathetic drama about Thatcher by mistake
Steve Coogan and Harriet Walter put their personal politics aside to star in James Graham’s dramatisation of the famous 1989 ...
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Han Kang’s radical empathy
It’s 1989, and at a party to celebrate Margaret Thatcher’s long decade in power ... ll shortly deliver the first speech to be made in the newly televised House of Commons. It’s a scene from ...