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Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley, subtitled in the initial credits How Maggie Might Have Done It, is a 2008 BBC Four television drama based on the early political career of the young Margaret Thatcher, from her attempts to gain a seat in Dartford in 1949 via invasion to her first successful campaign to win a parliamentary seat, Finchley, in 1959. It also portrays her early relationship and marriage with Denis Thatcher.
Original Release
06/12/2008
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Andrea Riseborough | Margaret Thatcher |
Philip Jackson | Alfred Roberts |
Michael Gould | John Miller |
Jonathan Aris | Stanley Soward |
Rory Kinnear | Denis Thatcher |
Samuel West | Ted Heath |
Lydia Leonard | Joyce |
Marcia Warren | Old Dear |
Michael Cochrane | Sir Waldron Smithers |
Sylvestra Le Touzel | Patricia Hornsby-Smith |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Andrea Riseborough | Margaret Thatcher |
Philip Jackson | Alfred Roberts |
Michael Gould | John Miller |
Jonathan Aris | Stanley Soward |
Rory Kinnear | Denis Thatcher |
Samuel West | Ted Heath |
Lydia Leonard | Joyce |
Marcia Warren | Old Dear |
Michael Cochrane | Sir Waldron Smithers |
Sylvestra Le Touzel | Patricia Hornsby-Smith |
Christian Rodska | Lieutenant Colonel Digby |
Robert Whitelock | Bert |
Geoffrey McGivern | Dartford Returning Officer / TV & Radio Announcer |
James Laurenson | Leslie Thomas |
Claire Vousden | Nanny |
Rob Edwards | Hemel Member / John Wells / Sumner |
Geoffrey Whitehead | Entwistle / Lt Col Allason |
Kim Wall | Lichfield / Horsfield / Orpington Member |
Angela Sims | Beckenham Constituent |
Michael Selwood | Mark Thatcher |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Robert Cooper | Executive Producer |
Bethan Jones | Executive Producer |
Kate Triggs | Executive Producer |
Madonna Baptiste | Producer |
Celia Duval | Producer |