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Last broadcast on Sat, 7 Mar 2009, 21:00 on BBC HD (see all broadcasts).
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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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