Margaret (2009 film)

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, with flashbacks telling the story of Thatchers defeat of Edward Heath in the 1975 leadership election. It was first broadcast onFebruary 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 Thatchers political career.

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 Thatchers premiership although many political figures were featured in both films, none of the four actors played the same roles in both.Allam, Cochrane, and Sessions would go on to appear in the 2011 film The Iron Lady about Thatchers rise to power, relationship with her husband, and life after politics. ........

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