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Two days after the shock resignation of her chancellor, Nigel Lawson, in 1989, "Margaret Thatcher sat down for what she thought would be a straightforward TV interview", said Dan Einav in the ...

Two days after the shock resignation of her chancellor, Nigel Lawson, in 1989, "Margaret Thatcher sat down for what she thought would be a straightforward TV interview", said Dan Einav in the ...

Channel 4’s Brian and Maggie is dramatizing one of the most dramatic moments in the reign of Margaret Thatcher. The 1989 interview on London Weekend TV which was her final one during her time in ...

Brian and Maggie follows the story surrounding Thatcher's last-ever TV interview which some believe was a contributing factor in her resigning as Prime Minister the following year.

The thesis underlying this two-part drama is that Brian Walden’s 1989 TV interview with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher marked the end of the long-form, forensic political interview, while also being ...

Walden – who had considered defecting to the Tories over concerns about Labour’s far-left move, and went on to be a speechwriter for Thatcher during her time in No 10 – saw a kinship between ...

The Channel 4 show depicts Thatcher's final television interview, which took place in 1989, and the unlikely friendship between Walden and the former prime minister.

Thatcher certainly regarded the conversation as significant – though long-friendly with Walden, they never spoke again after the interview. There has been no shortage of on-screen Margaret ...

Brian and Maggie starts on Channel 4 this evening. It is based on the real-life TV interview between Brian Walden and Margaret Thatcher. The 45-minute event became a major talking point in 1989.