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Margaret

5.8 113 mins TV Movie   Comedy   Drama   Romance   2009
BBC   Great Meadow Productions  
Director(s): James Kent

A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Then, long-serving politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns over Thatcher's attitude to Europe. His resignation speech sparks a chain of events that leads to the overthrow of Britain's first woman prime minister. This modern dramatic tragedy illustrates the strengths and fatal flaws of this iconic woman more clearly than ever before and reveals how the very aspects of her character that helped her secure power are the ones that ensured her downfall. Drama starring Lindsay Duncan.

Casts of Margaret

Lindsay Duncan

as Margaret Thatcher

Ian McDiarmid

as Denis Thatcher

Roger Allam

as John Wakeham

Kevin McNally

as Kenneth Clarke

Roger Ashton-Griffiths

as John Sergeant

Michael Maloney

as John Major

Roy Marsden

as Norman Tebbit

Guy Henry

as Tristan Garel-Jones

Nigel Le Vaillant

as Ted Heath

Robert Hardy

as Willie Whitelaw

Philip Jackson

as Bernard Ingham

John Sessions

as Ian Gow

Oliver Cotton

as Michael Heseltine

Rosemary Leach

as The Queen

Elizabeth Bennett

as Sue Mastriforte

Olivia Poulet

as Carol Thatcher

Michael Cochrane

as Alan Clark

Nicholas Le Prevost

as Douglas Hurd

Nicholas Jones

as Tim Renton

Christian McKay

as John Whittingdale

Charlotte Asprey

as Caroline Stephens

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