Harriet Walter and Steve Coogan star in James Graham’s recreation of the 1989 interrogation of Margaret Thatcher by Brian Walden
Two days after the shock resignation of her chancellor Nigel Lawson in October 1989, Margaret Thatcher sat down for what she thought would be a straightforward TV interview. The man opposite her, Brian Walden, was a public admirer of the prime minister and a friend. But when the camera started rolling, the beleaguered leader found herself facing a tenacious interrogator rather than a sympathetic ally. Not for the first time that week, she felt betrayed.
While the series stops short of eliciting affection for Thatcher, it does humanise a divisive figure, partly by showing her own faltering attempts to be more approachable. In one scene, we see her call Walden from bed to stumble her way through a half-remembered joke in an attempt to prove to him that she “likes fun”. Later, she wonders whether she has shed too much of her formidable facade. That tension between forging connections and maintaining boundaries also runs through Walden’s story.
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