Steve Coogan is the driving force behind a new two-part drama about Margaret Thatcher and an infamous interview with Brain Walden. Brian and Maggie comes to Channel 4 on Wednesday 29 January at ...

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 ...

Brian and Maggie viewers laid into Steve Coogan just minutes into watching the new Channel 4 drama. The first instalment of the two-part series hit our screens on Wednesday, and will be followed ...

The man opposite her, Brian Walden, was a friend, but when the camera started rolling, the PM "found herself facing a tenacious interrogator rather than a sympathetic ally". The interview is the ...

Brian and Maggie viewers have called the Channel 4 docudrama "a masterpiece" as they praised actors Harriet Walter and Steve Coogan, and writer James Graham. The two-part drama, which concluded on ...

Writer James Graham (Sherwood and Brexit: The Uncivil War) dramatises Margaret Thatcher’s final television interview, a fateful 45-minute encounter with journalist Brian Walden from which her ...

James Graham penned Brian and Maggie, which stars Steve Coogan as journalist Brian Walden and Harriet Walter as the Iron Lady. He said "we've moved away from these big TV interviews" to mediums ...

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.

In December 2019, at the end of an interview with Nigel Farage – then the leader of the Brexit Party – the BBC’s Andrew Neil turned to the camera and addressed the prime minister, Boris Johnson.