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Margaret

5.8 113 mins TV Movie   Drama   2009
BBC   Great Meadow Productions  
Director(s): James Kent

Release Date: 26 Thu, Mar 2009

A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Then, long-serving politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns over Thatcher's attitude to Europe. His resignation speech sparks a chain of events that leads to the overthrow of Britain's first woman prime minister. This modern dramatic tragedy illustrates the strengths and fatal flaws of this iconic woman more clearly than ever before and reveals how the very aspects of her character that helped her secure power are the ones that ensured her downfall. Drama starring Lindsay Duncan.

Casts of Margaret

Lindsay Duncan

as Margaret Thatcher

Ian McDiarmid

as Denis Thatcher

Roger Allam

as John Wakeham

Kevin McNally

as Kenneth Clarke

Roger Ashton-Griffiths

as John Sergeant

Michael Maloney

as John Major

Roy Marsden

as Norman Tebbit

Guy Henry

as Tristan Garel-Jones

Nigel Le Vaillant

as Ted Heath

Robert Hardy

as Willie Whitelaw

James Fox

as Charles Powell

Philip Jackson

as Bernard Ingham

John Sessions

as Geoffrey Howe

Oliver Cotton

as Michael Heseltine

Julian Firth

as Norman Lamont

Rosemary Leach

as The Queen

Elizabeth Bennett

as Sue Mastriforte

Olivia Poulet

as Carol Thatcher

Michael Cochrane

as Alan Clark

Dermot Crowley

as Airey Neave

Nicholas Le Prevost

as Douglas Hurd

Rupert Vansittart

as Peter Morrison

Tim McMullan

as William Waldegrave

Paul Jesson

as Kenneth Baker

Nicholas Day

as Cranley Onslow

Nicholas Jones

as Tim Renton

Christian McKay

as John Whittingdale

Charlotte Asprey

as Caroline Stephens

Martin Chamberlain

as Nigel Lawson

Alan Cox

as Gordon Reece

Jenny Howe

as Cynthia Crawford

Diana Kent

as Margaret King

Oliver Le Sueur

as Mark Thatcher

Francis Maguire

as Official

George Pensotti

as Speaker of the Commons

Mark Perry

as John MacGregor

Nicholas Rowe

as Malcolm Rifkind

Tim Wallers

as MP

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