Margaret
Drama about Margaret Thatcher's fall from power. As Thatcher prepares for the Lord Mayor's banquet, Geoffrey Howe pens the resignation speech that will seal her fate.
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.
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Director | James Kent |
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 |
Cynthia Crawford | Jenny Howe |
John Gummer | Ian Hughes |
Bernard Ingham | Philip Jackson |
Kenneth Baker | Paul Jesson |
Tim Renton | Nicholas Jones |
Margaret King | Diana Kent |
Douglas Hurd | Nicholas Le Prevost |
Mark Thatcher | Oliver Le Sueur |
Edward Heath | Nigel Le Vaillant |
Queen Elizabeth II | Rosemary Leach |
John Whittingdale | Christian McKay |
Official | Frank Maguire |
John Major | Michael Maloney |
Norman Tebbit | Roy Marsden |
Denis Thatcher | Ian McDiarmid |
William Waldegrave | Tim McMullan |
Kenneth Clarke | Kevin R McNally |
Speaker of the Commons | George Pensotti |
John MacGregor | Mark Perry |
Carol Thatcher | Olivia Poulet |
Malcolm Rifkind | Nicholas Rowe |
Geoffrey Howe | John Sessions |
Peter Morrison | Rupert Vansittart |
Producer | Sanne Wohlenberg |
Writer | Richard Cottan |