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STEVE COOGAN and DAME HARRIET WALTER on recreating a political exchange that spelled the end for Margaret Thatcher’s time in Downing Street
‘THE TWO OF THEM WERE OUTSIDERS’
Author: SEAN MARLAND
STEVE COOGAN and DAME HARRIET WALTER on recreating a political exchange that spelled the end for Margaret Thatcher’s time in Downing Street
‘THE TWO OF THEM WERE OUTSIDERS’
The questions are prepped, the sound is checked, and the cameras are ready to roll as C4’s much-anticipated new drama Brian and Maggie revisits a now-infamous interview that changed the course of British politics. Penned by award-winning screenwriter James Graham (Sherwood), the two-part series transports us back to Sunday 29 October 1989 when then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (Dame Harriet Walter) sat down with Labour MP-turned-journalist Brian Walden (Steve Coogan) for an exchange that spa...