Real reason Margaret Thatcher and Brian Walden's friendship was shattered after brutal TV interview
Channel 4 drama Brian and Maggie looks at the final TV interview Margaret Thatcher gave with Brian Walden, with the former PM ...
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Harriet Walter gives the best Thatcher yet
By then, Walden – a Labour MP turned TV’s foremost political interviewer – had developed a friendship with Thatcher based on ...
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Interview with Harriet Walter (Margaret Thatcher)
I was extremely surprised when my agent said there is this thing called ‘Brian and Maggie’ and it’s about Brian Walden and Margaret Thatcher. I do remember Brian Walden quite well.
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Harriet Walter and Steve Coogan transform into Margaret Thatcher and Brian Walden in striking new pics of Channel 4 drama about clash that lead to Iron Lady's resignation - and ...
The two-part show will look at former Labour MP and broadcast journalist Brian Walden, played by Steve, and former Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher, portrayed by Harriet.
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Rachel Reeves compares herself to Margaret Thatcher in attempt to shrug off critics
Rachel Reeves has hit out at critics who "don't want to see her succeed" amid soaring UK borrowing costs and slumped growth. The Chancellor said she wouldn't let criticism over her decision to ...
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Harriet Walter: 'I think Margaret Thatcher would have detested me'
Harriet Walter never met Margaret Thatcher, but she is musing gleefully on how awkward an encounter between the two may have proved. “I think she would have detested me,” she says happily.
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‘Mask-like’ Thatcher difficult to portray, says Dame Harriet Walter
Dame Harriet Walter has said it was “difficult” to portray the “mask-like” quality of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher for a new Channel 4 drama. Brian And Maggie tells the story of ...
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Harriet Walter on playing Margaret Thatcher: ‘I shifted to seeing her as a human being’
Unlike the impressive roster of fellow thesps who have taken up the Thatcher mantle before her ... radical revolution to change that.” She quotes a line she wrote for one of Shakespeare ...
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When Jimmy Carter told student his opinion of Thatcher
An Oxford PhD student has said it was "remarkable" that US President Jimmy Carter replied to her letter asking of his relationship with Margaret Thatcher. Dr Emily Stacey wrote to the former ...
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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 ...
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The Heritage Foundation, like much of the right, has lost its way
That, unfortunately, leads me to the Heritage Foundation. In 1993, at the Fraser Institute, Margaret Thatcher raised one of her favorite quotes: “There go my people. I must find out where they are ...
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Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes, popular and effective consumer affairs minister under Mrs Thatcher
Baroness Oppenheim-Barnes, who has died aged 96, was Conservative MP for Gloucester for 17 years and a popular consumer affairs minister in Margaret Thatcher’s first government, despite ...