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After Thatcher was elected as the leader of the Conservatives in 1975, he toyed with the idea of defecting – Thatcher’s biographer Charles Moore later wrote that Walden was "considered the most eloquent of his generation of Labour MPs" and was "more clear-sighted than most in seeing that Mrs Thatcher stood for real change.”.
The true story behind Channel 4 drama Brian and Maggie Margaret Thatcher’s decade-long premiership came to a screeching halt on October 29, 1989, when she sat down for an interview with renowned political broadcaster Brian Walden.
But the fallout of that fateful hour-long television special would have ramifications far beyond the studio they were sat in, setting off a chain of dominos that would eventually lead to Thatcher’s resignation in 1990.
Starring Steve Coogan as Walden and Harriet Walter as Margaret Thatcher, it’s set to be a tempestuous look at a turning point in British politics.
Though they occupied different positions on the political spectrum, both Thatcher and Walden came from humble beginnings.
