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Politics | Great Britain
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Best Production Design Drama | 2009 | David
Acting Performance in Television Female | 2009 | Lindsay
Philip Jackson (Bernard Ingram) and Michael Cochrane (Alan Clark) both appeared in an earlier BBC political drama entitled Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley (2008), to which this production is an indirect sequel. They played Alf Roberts, the father of the title character, and Sir Waldron Smithers respectively.
Nicholas Rowe (Malcolm Rifkind), Alan Cox (Gordon Reece) and Roger Ashton-Griffiths (John Sergeant) all previously appeared in Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), in which they played Sherlock Holmes, John Watson and Sergeant Lestrade respectively.
The real No. 10 Downing Street was decorated by Steve Hunt, his first job after leaving school. The entrance hall behind the famous No. 10 front door is blue in the film, but was really painted red, which Margaret Thatcher did not like, since it is the traditional colour for the opposition Labour Party. The main staircase was painted in a stippled yellow glaze, not beige-pink like in the film.
Nicholas Rowe, playing a Tory MP, is the son of an actual Tory MP.
Stars three different actors who have played 18th Century novelist Henry Fielding; Ian McDiarmid in City of Vice (2008), John Sessions in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1997) and Nicholas Rowe in A Harlot's Progress (2006).
"[Michael Heseltine has phoned Geoffrey Howe, ostensibly to say how sorry he is that Howe is resigning as Foreign Secretary. Having done this, he gets onto the real purpose of the phone call - a leadership challenge] Michael Heseltine: [diffidently] Were I to stand... I mean, were that eventuality to arise... could I, would I be able to count on your support? Geoffrey Howe: Michael, I think my position is probably best left... uncluttered by commitments of that kind. Michael Heseltine: Of course. [long pause] Geoffrey Howe: Although... Should I have any further message to convey at a later stage, then I shall of course do so. Michael Heseltine: Right. Yes, of course. Thank you Geoffrey. [he puts the phone down and turns to his advisors who were listening in] Michael Heseltine: [shouts] What the *fuck* does that mean?"
"Margaret Thatcher: I WILL change the soul of Britain!"
