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| 17 Danube Street | ...Imagine a cross between Hyancinth Bucket and MARGARET THATCHER, draped in expensive furs and thumbing wads of cash... it's as close as you're going to get to the madam at the helm of the notorious brothel that plagued the lives of the well-heeled residents of Edinburgh's Stockbridge.... |
| 1989 - Day By Day Omnibus | ...President Bush agrees to meet Chairman Gorbachev on his boat in the Mediterranean, protests in East Germany force the resignation of the Mayor of Leipzig, and ex-Chancellor Nigel Lawson makes things even more difficult for MARGARET THATCHER by spilling the beans on TV.... |
| 1989 - Day By Day | ...MARGARET THATCHER causes consternation at the Commonwealth over sanctions against South Africa, and, following the release of the Guildford Four, the Irish prime minister calls for a review of the Birmingham Six case.... |
| 1989 - The '89 Generation | ...Shadow Cabinet member David Willetts recalls how prime minister MARGARET THATCHER stunned guests at a lunch held by his think-tank in December 1989. When the Wall fell she responded with joy, but a few weeks later she was greeting the prospect it opened up - a united Germany - with vehement hostility.... |
| Analysis | ...The Eurozone is now the slowest growing of the major advanced economies and its largest member states are in trouble: Italy and Germany are in recession, and the French economy is almost at stagnation point. Some Germans are even asking themselves if they need their own MARGARET THATCHER. Frances Cairncross investigates the causes of Europe's poor economic health and asks whether the Euro is part of the problem or part of the solution.... |
| Archive Hour, The | ..."Alistair Mcgowan explores the link between voice and identity, and analyses the voices of MARGARET THATCHER, Richard Burton, and Winston Churchill. " / Alistair Mcgowan explores the link between voice and identity. Among others, he analyses the voices of MARGARET THATCHER, Richard Burton, Kenneth Williams and Winston Churchill ... |
| Archive On 4 | ...Matthew Parris, who worked for MARGARET THATCHER before becoming a political journalist, delves into the Brook Lapping archive to hear from some of her former staff, ministers, civil servants, speechwriters and advisors about what she was like to work for.... |
| Artsextra Special [radio Ulster] | ...Kim Lenaghan is joined by Peter York, Neil Martin, Liz Kennedy and Brian Henry Martin as he looks at the 80s and its legacy, from MARGARET THATCHER to Madonna.... |
| Between Ourselves | ...They describe it as the politicians' Olympic Games: everyone is desperate to win and only the strong survive. Olivia O'leary finds out what it's like to be in the thick of a General Election campaign. Michael Dobbs worked with MARGARET THATCHER in the '70s and '80s, and Peter Hyman was one of Tony Blair's secret weapons in 1997 and 2001. They tell Olivia, with uncommon candour, what its like to be part of this world.... |
| Between The Ears | ...A special double bill to conclude the series of newly commissioned experiments in creative radio. `Grosse Fuge'. A tapestry woven from public speeches given by speakers including Winston Churchill, JFK, Gandhi, MARGARET THATCHER, Jesse Jackson and Brian Keenan.... |
| Blunt Speaking | ...MARGARET THATCHER/Nanny....Kika Markham... |
| Brief History Of Cunning, A | ...American writer and satirist Joe Queenan traces the history of cunning, from Odysseus to Karl Rove, via Machiavelli, Richard Nixon and MARGARET THATCHER. He talks to experts, observers and practitioners of the dark arts, from Professor of Classics Edith Hall to Tim Parks, translator of Machiavelli's The Prince. In Italy he meets a commentator who describes cunning as a pathology of intelligence, while former Conservative party treasurer Lord McAlpine sees it more as a 'little nudge here, a little nudge there'.... |
| Case History | ...The first of four programmes in which professor Roy Porter reconsiders the performances of leading political figures by looking at their health. 1: `Reagan/Brezhnev'. In the 1980s, the superpowers were led, on one hand, by someone who could not always remember the names of his cabinet and, on the other, by a man who called MARGARET THATCHER `Mrs Ghandi', because he had been given the wrong cue card.... |
| Classrooms To Power | ...2/2. Michael Dobbs examines the schooldays of leading prime ministers. He assesses the importance of Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School and its surroundings to MARGARET THATCHER ... |
| Conference Special | ...MARGARET THATCHER (Speaker)... |
| Dave's Friends In The North | ...In this programme, Anne asks why Cameron's Tories need the north. She argues that it goes beyond a blunt electoral need to win back seats held under MARGARET THATCHER in the 1980s. Cameron wants to be a One Nation Tory, so this is also a matter of culture and credibility.... |
| Duel, The | ...Marking the Twentieth Anniversary of the most tumultuous industrial dispute in Post War Britain, The Duel is dramatisation of the Miners' Strike of 1984, seen from the point of view of its two main protagonists - MARGARET THATCHER and Arthur Scargill. The fight between the Prime Minister and the leader of the National Union of Mineworkers is one of the defining battles of Twentieth Century Britain. At stake were two totally different views of society.... |
| Facts And Fancies | ...Getting a big thumbs up from Armando are Deng Xiao Ping and MARGARET THATCHER; how we accept barmy decisions if taken with gusto.... |
| Falklands Play, The | ...MARGARET THATCHER....Patricia Hodge... |
| Family Affair, A | ...On 22nd November 1990, following dissention in the Conservative ranks and an equivocal leadership ballot, MARGARET THATCHER made the dramatic decision to offer her resignation as prime minister. Michael Dobbs' play follows Thatcher's last traumatic days in power, seen from the perspective of her husband, Denis, and her family.... |
| Fifty Years Before The Masthead | ...Life at The Observer proves to be a mixed blessing under the proprietorship of Tiny Rowland, the chief executive of Lonrho, who is keen for the paper to support MARGARET THATCHER until they fall out over her failure to stop Mohamed Al Fayed buying Harrods (which Roland wanted for himself). Rescue comes in the form of a job at the BBC, followed by work on the obituaries page of the Times.... |
| Fifty Years With The Firm | ...MARGARET THATCHER's arrival altered the relationship between the Queen and her prime ministers.... |
| File On 4 | ...MARGARET THATCHER (Speaker)... |
| Food Programme, The | ...MARGARET THATCHER became the first woman prime minister and Blondie was in the charts, but 1979 was also the year that The Food Programme first came on air, with Derek Cooper presenting.... |
| Forging The Union | ...The completion of the single market and MARGARET THATCHER's complicated relationship with Europe, publicly so bullish about sovereignty and rebates - and yet in many ways taking us 'in' further than any Prime Minister since Edward Heath.... |
| Germany's Choice | ...As Germany prepares to go to the polls in a snap election, Paul Henley travels around the country to assess the chances of the woman billed as Germany's answer to MARGARET THATCHER, Angela Merkel.... |
| Grandfather Of Self Help, The | ...Kate finds out if it contains a message for our own times, examines its enduring popularity and meets some of those who have been influenced by its ideas, including former politician Michael Portillo, who also reveals the book's influence on MARGARET THATCHER.... |
| Great Speeches | ...Geoffrey Howe recalls the day in November 1990 when he bit back and savaged MARGARET THATCHER and her policies in his resignation to the Commons. Fifteen days later, Thatcher was forced to resign.... |
| How To Topple A Prime Minister | ...James Naughtie talks to politicians who witnessed MARGARET THATCHER's fall and finds out if there are lessons to be learned for a Prime Minister today. He finds that there is a pattern to the turn of events when a PM's authority begins to ebb away.... |
| I Met | ...MARGARET THATCHER... |
| Life With The Firm, A | ...The arrival of MARGARET THATCHER in 1979 provoked a new adjustment in the relationship between the Queen and her prime ministers. Rumours spread of tensions - rumours fuelled by interested parties and picked up by the media. But were they true?... |
| Margaret Thatcher Ha Ha Ha | |
| Mary Whitehouse Experience, The | ...Punchline Competition - "What"s the difference between MARGARET THATCHER and Pamella Bordes?"
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| Million Pound Radio Show, The | ...The comedy sketch show. This edition includes "the pirate sketch" & refs. to John Major & the fall of MARGARET THATCHER. Written & presented by Andy Hamilton & Nick Revell. With Felicity Montagu & Jasper Jacob. Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer.... |
| More Or Less | ...Andrew Dilnot asks whether the gap between Britain's richest and poorest neighbourhoods is any narrower under New Labour than it was under MARGARET THATCHER ... |
| Not While I'm Alive, He Ain't | ...In the series about political rivalries, Brian Walden examines how the relationship between MARGARET THATCHER and Nigel Lawson moved from close cooperation to overt hostility.... |
| On The Hour | ...Care in the Community - what is it, and what’s happening to it? Find out here, because it’s wedged between close scrutinations of the ultranews that MARGARET THATCHER is to replace Sylvester McCoy as the new Doctor Who, why the piano world has gone ape over Godfrey The Chimpanzee, Alan Partridge’s studies into the high incidence of groin strain in sport, and a look at your things in “Your Things” - it’s to do with YOU! This Week’s Audio Pullout: “The Colour Supplement” - five minutes of glossy radio for you to keep all week.... |
| Politicians Fear Of The Gaffe | ...Michael White of the Guardian presents an entertaining examination of the political gaffe. Ranging from MARGARET THATCHER's `we have become a grandmother' to John Major's attack on some cabinet colleagues as `bastards', the programme features many amusing and embarrassing moments from British politics.... |
| Power Eating | ...This edition recalls the first time MARGARET THATCHER met Mikhail Gorbachev and discovered over lunch that he was a man she could do business with.... |
| Private Passions | ...the world's most experienced and authoritative journalists. During a career spanning more than 30 years he has reported from over 100 countries, including war zones such as Kosovo, AFGHANISTAN and Iraq, and has interviewed many controversial world leaders, from Nelson Mandela and MARGARET THATCHER to Saddam Hussein and Robert Mugabe. His musical choices range from operas by Purcell, Berlioz and Britten to a Soviet cantata by Prokofiev and a Rumanian folk dance by Bartok.... |
| Radio Active | ...The resident medium joins the team and childhood memories from a friend of MARGARET THATCHER's.... |
| Reunion, The | ...In 1979, the General Election campaign saw the trusted Jim Callaghan pitted against the then unknown MARGARET THATCHER. In a unique gathering, Sue MacGregor brings together the campaigning team that steered her to victory and lets them reflect on their achievements and the doubts they had about the chances of a woman becoming Prime Minister.... |
| Rock And Poll Years, The | ...Five programmes mixing pop and politics to capture the atmosphere and chart the course of general election campaigns which changed the country. 4: Miles Kington tunes in to 1979, when PM Jim Callaghan was battling not just the unions and the Winter of Discontent but also the new Tory leader MARGARET THATCHER. Blondie were in the charts with `Sunday Girl', as were Simon and Garfunkel with `Bright Eyes'.... |
| Sermon On The Mound, The | ...Iain MacWhirter recalls a famously controversial speech made by prime minister MARGARET THATCHER to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 20 years ago.... |
| Soho Stories [documentary] | ...Paul Jackson looks at how the foundations were laid for a viable business model. With the help of activist Michael Darlow and head of MARGARET THATCHER's Policy Unit in No 10, Brian (now Lord) Griffiths, he explains how the indies were able to pursuade the government that both the BBC and ITV should be compelled to take a proportion of programmes from independent producers. The 25 per cent quota campaign was later described as the most successful poltical lobby in modern British history.... |
| Special Assignment | ...MARGARET THATCHER (Speaker)... |
| Stand Down Margaret - Music's Response To Thatcherism | ...Alongside news archive we hear how key events of that turbulent era galvanized musicians and fans alike and Jeremy Vine asks: Were the 80s a golden age for protest music? What was it about MARGARET THATCHER that gave birth to so much of it? And, did the music make a gnat's worth of difference to the government's policies?... |
| Stark Talk [radio Scotland] | ...Moir Lockhead grew up in a working class mining town. Nowadays he has his own estate on Royal Deeside. He talks to Edi Stark about leaving school at the age of 15 to become a mechanic and, with the help of MARGARET THATCHER, going on to become Chief executive of FirstGroup, the UK's largest bus operator and second largest rail operator.... |
| Tales From The Cutting Room | ...MARGARET THATCHER... |
| Ted Hughes - Eco Warrior | ...... |
| This Sceptred Isle - The 20th Century | ...Britain remained in economic decline and MARGARET THATCHER becomes leader of the Conservatives. Narrated by Anna Massey.... |
| Top Girls | ...This landmark play examines the political costs of women rising to the top, written shortly after MARGARET THATCHER became Prime Minister.... |
| Week Ending | ...SBH:An edition of the satirical sketch show based on the week's news. With Bill Wallis, David Tate, Sally Grace & John Baddeley. With sketches about MARGARET THATCHER's resignation. Producer: Sarah Smith.... |
| Whatever Happened To The Teapots? | ...In the 1980s, Roger Law of Spitting Image went to Stoke-on-Trent to get some novelty MARGARET THATCHER teapots made. Now Roger returns to meet up with the craftsmen who helped him get a handle on Mrs T.... |
| Whatever Happened To The Working Class | ...The working class may have historically been aligned with the labour movement, but MARGARET THATCHER's astute recognition of strong individualistic aspirations - such as the desire to own a home - changed the political landscape in ways that are still evident nearly 30 years on.... |
| Why Did We Do That? | ...Winston Churchill and MARGARET THATCHER loathed them; others celebrated them as bastions of British democracy. The committee has become one of the constants of British life everywhere, from the village hall to Westminster. So why do we love this way of doing - or failing to do - our business?... |
| Wilko's Weekly | ...SBH:A portrait of British communities as seen through the eyes of their local newspapers. The Grantham Journal. Incl. ints with employees of the newspaper and the people of Grantham, home town of MARGARET THATCHER. Presented by Tony Wilkinson. Produced by Julian Hale.... |
| Witness [world Service] | ...Witness is the history programme for the BBC World Service. In today's edition we hear about MARGARET THATCHER's last days in power - from a man was there alongside her.... |
| Woman's Hour | ...SBH:PM MARGARET THATCHER int. about working women & child care, women in politics & her own future. Idea we might have entire generation of creche children not right, but women should at least "keep their hand in". Not afraid of retirement - but still has a lot to do. Interviewer: Jenni Murray. From Woman's Hour... |
| Words And Music | ...Including Pope's Essay on Man and excerpts from Milton's Paradise Lost, Primo Levi's If This Is A Man and Orwell's Shooting an Elephant, with music by Britten, Respighi, Joni Mitchell and Copland's Lincoln Portrait narrated by MARGARET THATCHER ... |