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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Television: why does no Irish broadcaster have the ambition to bring our history to light in so riveting a fashion?

Margaret Thatcher rarely flinched in the face of scrutiny. But one interview, aired on 29 October 1989, proved to be a ...

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

In his latest TV show, writer James Graham turns his attention to the 1989 showdown between journalist Brian Walden and ...

Brian and Maggie: who plays who in the new Margaret Thatcher drama? - The show, which tells the story of a contentious TV ...