Brian and Maggie (2025)

7.3 (4 votes)

1 Season

January 29, 2025

English

Drama

Synopsis

A dramatization of the story behind and occasion of Thatcher’s last TV interview, the hugely damaging ITV grilling by her old friend Brian Walden, which some view as the final nail in her prime ministerial coffin.

Creator

Delyth Scudamore, Rupert Majendie, Sarah Monteith

Network

Channel 4

Episodes

Episode 1

Jan 29, 2025

45 min

8.0

After resigning as a Labour MP, Brian Walden is poached by LWT to front a heavyweight political programme. His first guest: Margaret Thatcher. And so, an unlikely friendship begins...

Episode 2

Jan 30, 2025

47 min

9.0

Chancellor Nigel Lawson resigns, plunging Thatcher into crisis. Days later, Margaret’s seismic TV interview with Brian Walden sets in motion the end of her premiership - and their friendship.