Thursday 26 February 2009

Margaret

WATCH:


26 Feb 200921:00 on BBC Two

SYNOPSIS:

Drama charting Margaret Thatcher's astonishing fall from power, one of the most extraordinary stories of political assassination the world has seen. It took only eleven days for Thatcher to go from being the most powerful woman in the world to the tearful figure in the back of the car. A major tragedy in the true Shakespearean sense, in Margaret we watch a woman lose the one thing she really cares about - power - changing from leader to victim before our eyes.

12th November 1990: As Thatcher prepares for her speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet at the Guildhall, Geoffrey Howe, her quietly-spoken former foreign secretary and chancellor, pens the resignation speech that will stun the country and seal her fate. The next day Howe makes his lethal speech in the Houses of Parliament and the final ten days of Margaret Thatcher's reign begin.

CREDITS:

Margaret Thatcher
Lindsay Duncan
John Wakeman
Roger Allam
John Sergeant
Roger Ashton-Griffiths
Caroline Stephens
Charlotte Asprey
Sue Mastriforte
Elizabeth Bennett
Nigel Lawson
Martin Chamberlain
Alan Clark
Michael Cochrane
Michael Heseltine
Oliver Cotton
Gordon Reece
Alan Cox
Airey Neave
Dermot Crowley
Cranley Onslow
Nicholas Day
Norman Lamont
Julian Firth
Charles Powell
James Fox
Willie Whitelaw
Robert Hardy
Tristan Garel Jones
Guy Henry
Director
James Kent
Producer
Sanne Wohlenberg

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