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 ...

Brian and Maggie’ revisits a turning point in Britain’s political history - The interview is now seen as the beginning of the ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Steve Coogan has revealed that one scene in his new drama Brian and Maggie ended up being cut from the show because he ...

Channel 4 show Brian and Maggie dramatises Brian Walden's interview with Margaret Thatcher, but he continued to have a ...