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Brian and Maggie

+ Q&A with Steve Coogan, Harriet Walter, director Stephen Frears, creator and writer James Graham and executive producer Sarah Monteith

Brian and Maggie recounts the LWT television interview that, in many ways, signalled the end of Thatcher’s premiership.

  • Director

    Stephen Frears

  • With

    Harriet Walter, Steve Coogan, Emma Sidi

  • Channel 4/Baby Cow Productions 2024. 90min. Total running time 130min

Created and written by James Graham (Sherwood, Quiz), Stephen Frears’ scintillating drama stars Steve Coogan as politician-turned-journalist Brian Walden and Harriet Walter as Margaret Thatcher. It reconstructs the seismic LWT interview that reshaped national opinion and, in many ways, signalled the end of Thatcher’s premiership. Walden and Thatcher had enjoyed a long-term friendship, respecting each other’s formidable presence in politics and the media. But the interview would not only decide the fate of the country’s political future, it also witnessed the rupture of the bond between the two.

Tickets £17, concessions £14 (Members pay £2 less).