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Thatcher: The Downing Street Years

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Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

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A history of the eleven years which Thatcher spent as Prime Minister of the UK.

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Not available to stream in United States yet.

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Director: Denys Blakeway
Status: Ended
First aired: Oct 20, 1993
Network: BBC Two
Studio: Fine Art

Time to finish

4 hrs

4 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Cast

Margaret Thatcher

Self

Ronald Reagan

Self

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Thatcher: The Downing Street Years

19931 Season60m episodes10.0

Documentary

TMDB10.0

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Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

About

A history of the eleven years which Thatcher spent as Prime Minister of the UK.

Where to watch

Region

Not available to stream in United States yet.

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E1 · Airs Oct 20, 1993 · 1h 0m
Woman at War
The first programme looks at how she rejected the postwar consensus that had governed the country for more than 30 years, and came into conflict with trade unions, the old establishment and even members of her own cabinet. Yet even as the country moved into a crippling recession, the Prime Minister refused to make a U-turn in policy.
E2 · Airs Oct 27, 1993 · 1h 0m
Best of Enemies
In her second term in office after victory in 1983, Mrs Thatcher's position seemed impregnable. Her conduct of the Falkland's war was popular, she had trounced Arthur Scargill and the striking miners, and had survived the bombing by the IRA of the Grand Hotel in Brighton. But all was not well: Cabinet Secretary Robert Armstrong and ex Chancellor Nigel Lawson are amongst those who recall the emnity between the Prime Minister and her Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine. Thatcher thought of him as 'over-poweringly ambitious and self-centred', and his handling of the Westland affair in 1986 only served to increase ill-feeling between the two, which reached its height with his challenge to her leadership in 1990.
E3 · Airs Nov 3, 1993 · 1h 0m
Midnight in Moscow, Twilight in London
Even as Margaret Thatcher strode onto the world stage with Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, and the election campaign gathered pace, her colleagues began to feel disenchanted. Party chairman Norman Tebbit saw her as a 'medieval monarch wondering who has his eyes on the crown', and Sir Geoffrey Howe thought her trumpeted 'special relationship' with Reagan was at the expense of relations with Europe. Nigel Lawson claimed she distrusted her colleagues, and she, in turn, thought of him as 'a man of many talents... but great drawbacks'. As the economy worsened and problems with the poll tax began to loom, the prime minister found herself even more isolated behind the newly erected Downing Street security gates.
E4 · Airs Nov 10, 1993 · 1h 0m
Wielding the Knife
As the Conservative Party began to turn against her leadership, the Prime Minister showed no willingness to stand down. Although there was no clear successor, colleagues were beginning to view Thatcher as an electoral liability.

Details

Director: Denys Blakeway
Status: Ended
First aired: Oct 20, 1993
Network: BBC Two
Studio: Fine Art

Time to finish

4 hrs

4 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Margaret Thatcher

Self

Ronald Reagan

Self

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