By mistake, Channel 4 has made a sympathetic drama about Margaret Thatcher. It can’t be by design. Steve Coogan, whose ...

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2025 is a big year for Margaret Thatcher fans. It would not only be her centenary year, it marks the 50th anniversary of her election to the leadership of the Conservative Party. No former prime ...

In 1989, heavyweight political inquisitor Brian Walden badly wounded an already beleaguered prime minister Margaret Thatcher ...

Brian Walden and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher are brought to life by Steve Coogan and Harriet Walter in a new Channel 4 ...

James Graham’s Brian and Maggie, starring Harriet Walter as the prime minister, is shrewd on the class dynamics that made her ...

Television: why does no Irish broadcaster have the ambition to bring our history to light in so riveting a fashion?

Brian Walden and Margaret Thatcher were soulmates. He was a Labour MP who became a TV interviewer, she was the Tory leader ...

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Well, Coogan was pressed on the scene in question at a screening of the series. When asked what the scene actually was, Coogan revealed: “I think it was the line where [Brian] s ...

Jonathan Reynolds, Labour’s business secretary, told the Financial Times, “We have to respond to the agenda the US president ...

The first instalment of the two-part series hit our screens on Wednesday, and will be followed by the second on Thursday 30 January.