What is it with the BBC and Margaret Thatcher? Britain’s leading public-service broadcaster never seems to miss an opportunity to do her down, especially in its dramatic depictions, which regularly demean and disparage her and her record. Not content with having a library full of anti-Thatcher footage, the excellent First Post Daily website reports that the Beeb is producing another two dramatic tilts at her.
The first is called simply “Margaret”. According to First Post Daily “it portrays Lady T, who is now 82, as a humourless obsessive.”
The second film, called “Mrs Thatcher, The Long Walk to Finchley”, deals with her early life. According to First Post Daily “the director, Tony Saint, has already had to drop one scene, in which the young Margaret used the F-word. And it looks like further changes are being made – the drama had been due to air on BBC4 in February, but has been delayed until June.”
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