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.
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Lindsay Duncan
Margaret Thatcher
Ian McDiarmid
Denis Thatcher
Roger Allam
John Wakeham
Kevin McNally
Kenneth Clarke
Roger Ashton-Griffiths
John Sergeant
Michael Maloney
John Major
Roy Marsden
Norman Tebbit
Guy Henry
Tristan Garel-Jones
Nigel Le Vaillant
Ted Heath
Robert Hardy
Willie Whitelaw
James Fox
Charles Powell
Philip Jackson
Bernard Ingham
John Sessions
Geoffrey Howe
Oliver Cotton
Michael Heseltine
Julian Firth
Norman Lamont
Rosemary Leach
The Queen
Elizabeth Bennett
Sue Mastriforte
Olivia Poulet
Carol Thatcher
Michael Cochrane
Alan Clark
Dermot Crowley
Airey Neave
Nicholas Le Prevost
Douglas Hurd
Rupert Vansittart
Peter Morrison
Tim McMullan
William Waldegrave
Paul Jesson
Kenneth Baker
Nicholas Day
Cranley Onslow
Nicholas Jones
Tim Renton
Christian McKay
John Whittingdale
Charlotte Asprey
Caroline Stephens
Martin Chamberlain
Nigel Lawson
Alan Cox
Gordon Reece
Jenny Howe
Cynthia Crawford
Diana Kent
Margaret King
Oliver Le Sueur
Mark Thatcher
Francis Maguire
Official
Douglas McFerran
MP
George Pensotti
Speaker of the Commons
Mark Perry
John MacGregor
Nicholas Rowe
Malcolm Rifkind
Tim Wallers
MP
