DOCUDRAMA: Margaret Thatcher – The Long Walk To Finchley, 9pm, BBC4
AS THE BBC4 Thatcher Years strand continues, Andrea Riseborough stars as the young Margaret Thatcher, charting our former Prime Minister’s struggle to become an MP in the Fifties.
Little did this feisty lady realise the struggle she faced to gain a seat in what would be a 10-year battle with Conservative stalwarts who did not think she was ‘the right sort of chap’ for the job.
This light-hearted film by Tony Saint follows Mrs Thatcher’s efforts as she sets out to prove that a woman’s place is in the House as well as the home, where she was the wife of Denis Thatcher (Rory Kinnear) and mother to twins Carol and Mark.
Despite being rejected by Tory selection committees, Mrs Thatcher was finally selected for Finchley, the North London seat she held for all her political career.