A Trailer for a New Show About Margaret Thatcher and an Infamous Interview

Daniel Hautzinger

September 17, 2025

Brian Walden sits hunched in a chair on a TV set in front of a TV showing Margaret Thatcher, with a camera pointing at him

Harriet Walter plays Margaret Thatcher and Steve Coogan the politician-turned-journalist Brian Walden in 'Brian and Maggie.' Credit: Baby Cow and Channel 4

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A new two-part series about an infamous political interview is coming to WTTW and PBS. Brian and Maggie traces the relationship between the United Kingdom's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the politician-turned-journalist Brian Walden, which culminated in a 1989 television interview that proved devastating to Thatcher soon before her downfall as prime minister.

In the show, which premieres on WTTW and via the PBS app on October 5 and 12 at 7:00 pm, Harriet Walter plays Thatcher and Steve Coogan takes on Walden. The two historical figures were friends from opposite sides of the political spectrum, but supposedly never spoke again after the interview.

Watch a trailer below.

Brian and Maggie