It was the most unlikely of alliances. But former Labour MP and firebrand TV inquisitor Brian Walden and Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher struck up an improbable friendship forged over a ...

Brian Walden is the subject of a new Channel 4 drama which examines his most famous interview with former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Brian and Maggie delves into how a single ...

Brian Walden and Margaret Thatcher were soulmates. He was a Labour MP who became a TV interviewer, she was the Tory leader whose radical restoration of economic choice and class aspiration rescued ...

Conducted by Brian Walden, the former MP turned feared political interviewer, the grilling exposed the Iron Lady’s vulnerabilities and is now widely seen as a moment that hastened her downfall.

The hour-long episodes of the Channel 4 docudrama see Harriet Walter and Steve Coogan play the Iron Lady and former Labour MP and broadcast journalist Brian Walden. From opposing political ...

It’s 1989 and Brian Walden (Steve Coogan) is Britain’s pre-eminent political interviewer. His next interview is with the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher (Harriet Walter), who he has known ...

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

And in 1989, it was for Margaret Thatcher. On October 29, she sat down for an interview with famous broadcasting heavyweight Brian Walden. She was under pressure: her chancellor had resigned three ...

Walden died at the age of 86 in 2019, he died at his home in St Peter Port, Guernsey, following complications from emphysema.