There was a time when politicians seemed human, but most today come across as overly-rehearsed and permanently defensive spreadsheet managers with every answer calculated, writes Brian Reade ...

By then, Walden – a Labour MP turned TV’s foremost political interviewer – had developed a friendship with Thatcher based on ...

Dubbed the interview that destroyed the Iron Lady's career, Labour MP turned journalist Brian Walden's bruising broadcast ...

EXCLUSIVE: Steve Coogan revealed the one Margaret Thatcher scene he insisted on cutting from Brian and Maggie.

Brian and Maggie’ revisits a turning point in Britain’s political history - The interview is now seen as the beginning of the ...

Jonathan Reynolds, Labour’s business secretary, told the Financial Times, “We have to respond to the agenda the US president ...

By mistake, Channel 4 has made a sympathetic drama about Margaret Thatcher. It can’t be by design. Steve Coogan, whose ...

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Brian and Maggie delves into how a single television interview by ex-Labour MP Brian Walden (Steve Coogan) led to the ...

Actor reveals ‘huge antipathy’ towards the Iron Lady and says he vetoed one scene in new drama because it was too kind to her ...

The two-part show will look at former Labour MP and broadcast journalist Brian Walden, played by Steve, and former Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher, portrayed by Harriet.

Channel 4 show Brian and Maggie dramatises Brian Walden's interview with Margaret Thatcher, but he continued to have a ...