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Margaret is a 2009 television film produced by Great Meadow Productions for the BBC. It is a fictionalisation of the life of Margaret Thatcher (played by Lindsay Duncan) and her fall from the premiership in the 1990 leadership election.^[1] It was first broadcast on 26 February 2009 on BBC Two. It was made by the same production company as the 2008 television film The Long Walk to Finchley, which fictionalised the start of Thatcher's political career.

Production

On 9 April 2008, it was announced that Duncan was to play Thatcher, and filming commenced in summer 2008.

Cast

Hardy, Fox, Vansittart and Cochrane had all appeared in the 2002 TV production of The Falklands Play, by Ian Curteis, about an earlier period in Thatcher's premiership; although many political figures were featured in both films, none of the four actors played the same roles in both.

Reception

The Guardian critic praised the "deft casting" and stated that the flashbacks were "illuminating and sometimes entertaining" and that some episodes in the drama were "wholly imaginary and thoroughly un-Thatcherite, but ... [hang] around the mind like cigar smoke"^[2].

Media releases

It has not yet been scheduled for a release on DVD.

See also

• Thatcher: The Final Days, a 1991 film also depicting the final days of Thatcher's premiership
• Cultural depictions of Margaret Thatcher

References

External links

• Margaret at BBC Programmes
• Margaret at the Internet Movie Database
• White, Michael (17 February 2009). "The lady's not for turning off: Drama shows the chinks in Thatcher's armour". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/feb/17/bbc-thatcher-drama. Retrieved 2009-02-17. 
• Aaronovitch, David (23 February 2008). "Portillo on Thatcher as Tory pin-up". The Times. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article3402330.ece. Retrieved 2008-06-05. 
• Holmwood, Leigh (29 May 2008). "A Free Country: BBC lines up new series by Tony Saint". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/29/bbc.independentproductioncompanies. Retrieved 2008-06-05. 
• Marcus, Sarah (28 April 2008). "Lindsay Duncan to play Margaret Thatcher". The Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/thatcher/1584490/Lindsay-Duncan-to-play-Margaret-Thatcher.html. Retrieved 2008-06-05.