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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Vicky Jessop

The true story behind Channel 4 drama Brian and Maggie

Margaret Thatcher’s decade-long premiership came to a screeching halt on October 29, 1989, when she sat down for an interview with renowned political broadcaster Brian Walden.

The pair were friends: he was her favourite interviewer. But the fallout of that fateful hour-long television special would have ramifications far beyond the studio they were sat in, setting off a chain of dominos that would eventually lead to Thatcher’s resignation in 1990.

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