Brian and Maggie - Episode 1

Steve Coogan and Harriet Walter star in the electrifying story of one hour of television that made history – the interview that began the end of Margaret Thatcher's career.

It is 1989. Margaret Thatcher has been Britain’s Prime Minister for ten years. The Iron Lady is to face her old friend, much-feared inquisitor Brian Walden. The interview becomes a sensation. After it is over, Thatcher will never speak to Walden again. And a chain of events will have been set in motion that ultimately leads to her resignation. This full-blooded exposé of a remarkable moment in political history questions whether the subsequent death of the hard-hitting political interview has put our democracy at risk.