All language subtitles for Brian and Maggie s01e01.eng

Tell the people.

Tell them on television.

Questions in the public mind,

answered by people

in the public eye.

Good evening. A few minutes ago,
the Prime Minister,

The Right Honourable
Harold Macmillan,

came to Television House, and
he's here now in the ITN studio.

But why should the public,
on this issue,

as regards the future of
the Royal Navy, believe you -

a transient, er, here-today

and, if I may say so,

gone-tomorrow politician -

rather than a senior officer of
many years' experience? I'm sorry,

I'm fed up with this interview.
Ridiculous!

Thank you, Mr Nott. It's a straight
yes-or-no question. You can put the

question. I will give you an answer.
It's a straight yes-or-no answer.

It may be the question, but it's not
the way I choose to answer it.

The Prime Minister's just arrived

in the last few seconds.

Morning, Prime Minister,
would you come on

Good Morning Britain,
Prime Minister?

BLEEP!

GASPING

Morning-morning, Brian, how are we?

Fine, thank you, Pam, good morning.

Sleepless night, was it?

Better use my thick brush, eh?

I've always quite liked her.

Well, how sort of single-minded

she is, anyway.

I can't remember,

have you interviewed her before?

Oh, yes, many times, over the years.

Brian?

She'll have seen this too,
of course.

She'll have to come out
fighting now, don't you think?

Brian.

What have you decided,

the, er, strategy?

What are you going to do?

Look, bad timing, that's all.

And it's a full
45 minutes, remember?

He's your favourite for a reason,

and he's a friend.

Be a walk in the park.

Just this way, please,
Prime Minister.

Margaret, how are you?

Well, Brian, always well.

Now, I expect you'll
be starting off with

you-know-who and you-know-what...

Hello, good morning.

...but I do hope we can then move on
to something of more substance,

like we usually do.

HE SIGHS

He seems, dare I say it, nervous,
and he's never nervous.

It's making me nervous.
Can you stop saying "nervous"?

Five, four, three, two...

Good afternoon.

Nigel Lawson's shock resignation
has plunged the Prime Minister

into the most serious
political crisis of her career.

Prime Minister, many people,

including many of your supporters,

blame you for the resignation.
Now, how you respond to these claims

may be of crucial significance
for you, personally,

and for your government.

So, I put it to you,
are you to blame?

I put this to our Chancellor.

There's no reason
he has to answer it,

I'm not that important.
LAUGHTER

But I'm afraid I cannot vote with
my own government on this order.

I regret it, but I cannot do so.
These are old solutions

for an increasingly tired country,

desperate to feel
new and young again.

Many of my, er, honourable friends,

er, whose conscience and experience

are not less than mine
and, in many cases, are greater,

will vote for the Government.
I respect their decision,

as they will respect mine.

Could he be our man?

My judgment is that
we are at the end of our tether.

MURMURS AND GROANS
The member for Dover.

My honourable friend

makes some exceptional points,

and I believe has captured

the despair of this nation.
MURMURS AND GROANS

Where are the answers
in this government's proposals

to the challenges we face?

Nowhere.

Inflation, nowhere.

Stagnation, nowhere.

Unemployment, nowhere.
MURMURS OF AGREEEMT

Brian Walden, for David Cox.
Oh, yes, ninth floor.

Well, what can I say?
London, Weekend, Television,

three of the most glamorous things
there are.

But, uh, if we do, er,

collectively decide
to give this a go,

I'd have to stand down.

An MP with a regular spot on
television, that would be...

I mean, wouldn't that be...?
Unethical? Yes.

Ah. And, uh, how would that,
you know, be, giving that all up?

Well, it's no secret
I'm no fan of the direction

the Labour Party is heading.

Completely at the mercy of
the unions,

all these
North London Marxist types,

not the broader tradition
I came from. Er, in fact, er,

to be honest, I don't think I should
ever have been an MP at all.

Working-class lad at Oxford,

I was flattered into it.
You realise pretty quickly,

er, just how little an impact,
as an individual, you can have.

Weekend World is a unique show at
LWT. They pretty much leave us alone

to do what we do. And, er, what
is it you think you do, my old son?

A long-form, forensic interview,

to help facilitate
mass comprehension.

Mass comprehension? My, oh, my!

In other words,
helping folk understand

what the hell is going on?
When we came on air, years ago,

we were, and still are,
the only political programme

to put a single interviewee
through their paces

for an entire show.
And we do that on the same channel,

and in-between repeats of
Upstairs, Downstairs,

and wrestlers knocking ten bells
of shit out of one another

for Weekend Sport,
because we believe

the political interview
ought to play a part in

a popular audience's understanding

of the world they live in.

Very good, nicely pitched.

And as regards you and, er,

current affairs?

No affairs, currently.

I'm very faithful to my wife, at
present. Why, what have you heard?

This is, er, your third wife?
BRIAN SIGHS

But, you know, some gobby bloke with
a common-as-muck Midlands accent,

when you think of The News, how
it sounds... doesn't sound like me.

No, but you sound like our audience.

Ha-ha-ha! Well, I suppose
when you think about it,

Shakespeare, the great
vendor of the English language,

he was a Brummie, wasn't he?
In fact, he probably

said those lines just like this.

IN BRUMMIE ACCENT: "Romeo, Romeo"?

"Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
CHUCKLING

I'll see you around, gentlemen.

So, Brian, this is, er, the
rest of the production team.

Hello... Hello.

You look young. What's your story?

I, er... I did a stint at
BBC Birmingham, actually,

your neck of the... Oh. They have
this South Asian Programming Unit

there now. Wonderful. Don't tell me
you're a West Bromwich Albion fan?

No, wait, hold the line.

Er, seventh this year
in the First Division.

Before that, third in the Second,
and then sixth, and then eighth.

Photographic memory.
Test me on anything, Sue.

Anything. What's your passion?

Barry Manilow,
and meetings starting on time.

You're sceptical, John.

Mm. It's my job
to be sceptical of politicians.

And here we are, inviting one
into our team. Well, they told us

to shake things up. He was thought
of as a future party leader once.

You don't think
he'll be lightweight?

Politicians always, at some level,
just want to be liked.

If I've learnt one thing,
it's that a show like this,

you're only ever one rating's dip,
one whiff of an audience

losing interest before...

Well...

He's got something.

We take the risk.

Your first guest should be
someone quite, er, loud.

Draw in some press.
A political titan.

Maybe Roy Jenkins, Denis Healey,

Airey Neave, even Ted Heath.

Already done him, done him twice,

won't do it and, oh, my Christ,
do you want people to fall asleep?!

I have a suggestion, actually.

That's a blank piece of paper.

It is. I was hoping for
a dramatic reveal.

I stand corrected.

Right, here we go.

Margaret Thatcher?

Yes. Interview
the Leader of the Opposition,

while she's still relatively green.

Her other interviews

haven't been hugely illuminating.
BRIAN SIGHS

To me, she trots out
other people's philosophies.

Keith Joseph, er,
monetarism, libertarianism,

but I'm not sure there's much
going on there,

apart from her... uh, being...

Oh, right, the only thing going
for her is that she's a woman.

No, no, I... Although...
Although that is interesting,

I think people are
missing something.

Er, she was pretty ruthless
in deposing her predecessor.

So, why? What does she want?

What is this change
she's hoping to bring?

Isn't that worth finding out?

I think there's a bigger agenda
here. I think that's...

I don't think that's
the right direction to go down.

All thoughts are welcome. Polices.

We're not saying she's in favour...

CONVERSATION CONTINUES

Margaret Thatcher,

er, since you became
leader of your party... Yes.

...you have broken the tradition,
in so far as...

? Yes, sir, I can boogie

? If you stay, you can't go wrong

? I can boogie, boogie-woogie

? All night long

? No, sir

? I don't feel
very much like talking

? No, neither walking... ?

Brian...

...or should that be Mr Walden?
Forgive me.

Mrs Thatcher.

I'd heard rumours that you
were thinking of crossing

the floor to us, once upon a time,
but now you've gone further,

you've crossed the river instead!
Ha-ha! Yes.

Well, it's all... It's all very new.

Well, it still is to me too, so...

You are new and I am new.

Excuse me, Mr Walden, Mrs Thatcher,

if you'd like to come this way,
please. Mr Walden...

Where do you want me?
Mrs Thatcher, just across there.

OK, if we go in for tight on
camera one, please.

On one... Yeah. Tiny bit tighter...

Yeah, that looks good. Good.

Camera three, wide as well.

OK. Brian, can you hear me?
God, that's loud!

Will you be doing that
the whole time?

So, you'll be
all the way over there?

Oh, yes. No, erm...

It's just a sort of a funky idea
that they're trying out

for the opening. On camera, it'll
look as if we're facing each other,

but in different aspects.
So, if you face, and I face,

then... You see? On the monitor?
Ah, yes.

Recording beginning in five, four,

three, two, one... Roll credits.

TITLE MUSIC PLAYS

Hello, and good morning.

One of the most urgent questions to
which everyone wants an answer is,

if we vote Margaret Thatcher into
Number 10 at the next election,

will we be voting for a disastrous

and futile confrontation between the
Government and the unions? Today,

on Weekend World, we will try and
answer that question.

First, though, the news headlines,
with Gordon Honeycombe.

There's more conjecture about
Middle East peace moves

after the unexpected return
to Israel last night from Paris

of the Israeli Foreign Secretary,
Mr Dayan.

And the Egyptian Foreign Minister,
Mr Fahmi,

has left Cairo for France.
He's also on his way to America,

with Egyptian proposals
for a Middle East settlement.

More than 40 fire bombs...

All right, main interview.
Good luck, Brian.

In speeches up and down the country,

Mrs Thatcher has often
startled her audiences.

Instead of the reassurance
we've come to expect

from Conservative leaders,
Mrs Thatcher conveyed

a sense of imminent danger.

There's a reason Mrs Thatcher
sounds more militant

than other post-war leaders.

They've avoided identifying
the party too closely with

any particular doctrine

because they've been afraid
that ideology costs votes.

Today, we're not going to consider
whether those

policies are, in themselves,
good or bad for Britain

but, instead, try to work out
whether she would overcome

the opposition
she's bound to run into.

So, we've indulged in
a little crystal-ball gazing,

with our own scenario
of what could happen

if she got in to Number 10.

Margaret Thatcher comes to power

after a close-run general election.

Immediately, Mrs Thatcher cuts taxes

and announces large reductions
in public spending.

A national ballot of miners

comes out overwhelmingly

in favour of strike action.

So, here we are, two Midlanders -
East and West.

Oh, yes.
And you went to Oxford, too?

On a scholarship, yes. Me, too.

Wouldn't have been able to go
otherwise. No, no, of course.

Although it did come with an awful
lot of hard work, of course.

Oh, yes. That was drilled into me.

Hard work, just rewards.
Five, four, three, two...

So, what would Mrs Thatcher do
if it came to the crunch?

Thank you for joining us,
Mrs Thatcher.

Do you see yourself, as we see you,

as a figure who wants to
substantially change

a lot of things in our society,
who wants to roll back to

a more individualistic
sort of society?

I think government has got into
far too many areas,

and government really has
tried to stop

a good deal of individual liberty.

Now, I want to roll back
those areas of decision,

both from people and businesses.

That's not government's job.

Well... One moment.
I want to be absolutely clear.

You see, the whole difference
between our society

and that of
the United States and Germany

is that they've grown
because they've got incentives.

The incentives we haven't had.
And I'm going to say

people will respond
to those incentives,

and a Socialist government
cannot give those incentives,

because all of its philosophy,
all of its ideology...

Brian, do challenge her.
She's an ideologue, a radical.

But governments spend better
when leaving the money with people,

and that is why they're coming
to us, and not to them.

Uh, well, it's a vision.

Er, but, er, governments aren't
conducted on visions, are they?

Oh, no, no, no. It's a reality.

I enjoyed that.

I don't know why some people fear
this whole, you know, the medium.

I see these conversations
as opportunities.

Well, then, we should
do it again sometime.

Er, I think you're that way,
we're this.

Right. Well, goodbye, then.
Goodbye. Bye.

Uh-oh, David's not saying anything!
Come, dear leader.

Oh, great Strategos,

what mighty thoughts?
You went too easy on her.

You gave her all that space to
postulate. Don't our audience

want to hear her postulate? The
function of a political interview

isn't to provide a platform
for the politician... So they make

a judgment about her.
...it's to break apart the platform.

Interesting one, isn't he, Bernard?

Labour man, of course, but...

Well, with his background,
like mine,

you take the Labour Party
like your mother's milk.

One of those aspirational
working classes we have to win over.

She was good. Answers the question.
Full of substance.

Full to bursting.
I've practically got indigestion.

Well, I'm sorry,
but I thought it was a disaster.

Well, he's a journalist,
at the end of the day.

Out for himself, they all are.

Yes, these people must always
be kept at arm's length. Mm.

So, we shall be seeing
Mrs Thatcher next, among

jubilant party workers.

Mrs Thatcher comes out,

dressed in the most brilliant blue.

Mrs Thatcher, are you still
cautiously optimistic?

We're reserving judgment, but,
yes, optimistic, based on the poll.

Will it be a landslide,
Mrs Thatcher? Too early to tell.

Well, if ever anyone looked
like a winner, Mrs Thatcher

looks like a winner this evening,
as she goes off to Finchley.

Good luck, Maggie! Good luck!
Good luck, Maggie!

And she must know now
that she is safely home and dry.

Good luck!
Good luck, Maggie! Good luck!

It's never happened before.

There's never been a woman
Prime Minister of Britain

or of any other Western country.

And that's what we're going to see
this afternoon, and it'll be

symbolised on the steps of
Number 10.

And that's what this crowd
here is waiting for, too.

Ah, Brian. Prime Minister.
Thank you for coming to see us here.

There's so many of you to get
through, I just needed to...

Not at all.
Happy to be one of The Chosen.

Cut away first?

Er, yes, a quick intro and then...

Presumably, a two-shot,
before moving to...? That's right.

Bernard, should that go,
that ornament thing?

It looks as if
it's sticking out of my head.

Don't want people to think
I've been impaled.

Ha-ha! Avoid saying this and this.

Oh...

Yes.

Right...

Ready.

Britain enters the '80s

with the most radical leadership
in a generation.

Margaret Thatcher insists
economic prosperity must return

to Britain, and has made it clear
she intends to do

whatever is necessary
to make her plan work.

Prime Minister, er,
it won't surprise you,

and I don't suppose
it surprises anybody,

that your political opponents think

your economic strategy will fail.
Well, theirs failed...

Well, we don't have time to go into
that now. ..and so we have to do

something very different...
No, wait a minute. It's part of

what you might call
the Thatcher Experiment.

Well, what interests me more
is that they think even if,

against their expectations,
you were to succeed economically,

er, you would still have created
a society which is more unequal,

riddled with avoidable injustices.

Now, is the price of
our economic recovery

and prosperity
greater inequality in our country?

Indeed, yes. One of the problems...

Of course there are differentials
for extra effort, extra skill.

You will get a more thriving society
when people can rise to

the limit of their talents.
For example,

I don't expect to be paid as
much as you are, Mr Walden.

Well, erm...

But it-it does mean more
inequality, does it not?

It does mean more. Indeed, yes.

She actually answers
the bloody question!

I find that refreshing.
Yes, but you risk coming across

to the whole world as though you're
becoming most enamoured with her.

It's not enamoured. It...
Look, she has a mission.

Agree with it or disagree with it,
she wants to get something done,

and I want to understand it.
Look, I get it. It's your style,

and it's a valid one, opening
them up. I just wish, with her,

you'd be a bit harder,
because she is hard.

Listen, Brian, look,
I'm sorry, but at some point,

you're going to have to
let go of the politician

that wants to be liked
and embrace the journalist

who can prosecute.
Those red lines between the two,

they exist for a reason.
Well, then, help me.

You say you want to
educate the masses,

start with me, Coxy.

I can learn anything.

Teach me the ways of
the great political interviewer

and I'll learn them. OK?

So, we start with a mind map.

The plan.

A map of potential answers to each
question that we can war-game,

so that you can prepare in advance
where you go next.

Which I can memorise.
Trust me, preparation,

I can do. Preparation, I love.

Minister, are you going to perform
a U-turn on your manifesto pledge?

If he says "yes", move to 4C,
"no", to 8B.

No, I will not be U-turning.
Well, then,

are you aware of the cost of
continuing down this road

and what's it going to be?
The Pointy Heads,

current affairs wonks.
I'd stay clear.

If they say, yes,
they will increase taxes,

turn right to this question.

If they say, no, they will not,
turn left to a different question.

Mr Nott, if you could not, in fact,

bring public borrowing under
control by any other means,

then you would have to increase
taxes in order to do so.

Most certainly. Most certainly...
That's better.

For the Labour Party,
I have a very deep umbilical tie.

It would be as painful for me

to break away from it as it would be
to break away from a family.

But you might, and it's the might
that interests me.

Ah, Geoffrey.

Are you ready for tomorrow's
Budget, Chancellor?

Of course, Margaret.

And, Nigel, nice and smart. Huh!

Congrats, Nigel.
Energy. On the way up.

Cheers. Yes, lots to do.

Exactly.
Energy, that's what we need.

Come and sit down.
I want you right here, Geoffrey,

on my right, as Chancellor.
OK. Then, Nigel...

Er, are you being any use?
Doing my... Do something.

Um, Michael, you're a bit tall,

would you please stand in
the back row?

Anyone else who's very tall?

Ah, just one moment.

Forgive me, Margaret, I...

I thought I'd just run through
these projections...

Who the devil's that?

Oh, isn't it her new
economic adviser - Adam, Alan...?

Alan Walters.
Mad professor, has the PM's ear,

but it won't last.

Best avoid him at all costs.

Just bear with...

Right, are we all ready...

...to face the lens of history?

Yes, over to you.

Everyone look at me, please.

Pennies don't come
from heaven, Brian,

they have to be earned
here on Earth,

and there are plenty out there
to be earned.

? When I'm with you, baby

? I go out of my head

? I just can't get enough

? All the things you do to me

? And everything you said

? I just can't get enough

? We slip and slide
as we fall in love

? And I just can't seem to
get enough of... ?

If we do all the right things,
you know,

keep public spending under control,

keep public borrowing down,

then the boat will come in.

Well, erm, that answer,

er, provokes me to ask you a
question, Prime Minister. I'd hoped

I wasn't being provocative. No, no,
I don't mean in that sense.

I meant that it was stimulative...
Mm. ..and it stimulates me

to ask you a question.

When you talk about your values,

er, those values
have a resonance in our past.

What I would call Victorian values.
Now, is that correct?

Yes, exactly. Very much so.

Those were the values
when our country became great.

Yes, Victorian values,
I'm quite pleased with that.

I know, but you heard her,
she's going to start using that now,

a line you fed her.
Isn't this exactly the kind of thing

David is...? Yes, but we're helping
define the news for our audience,

not just report it, all right?
Look, I've got to file my column.

OK, I'll head back inside.
OK. Well done tonight.

Chin-chin, bravo, see you tomorrow.

You don't fancy a drink, do you?

Er... Oh, well, erm, actually, I...

I probably, I'd best not get
a slapped wrist and, er...

But, erm, cheers, anyway.

No, I was never a socialist.
Come on, admit it.

No, honestly. Honestly.

This is the thing
that people on the left -

well, the further left -
have never understood

about actual working people.
We don't want hand-outs.

My dad didn't. We value hard work.

I've always been
more of a meritocrat.

Yes, a meritocracy. Exactly.

And you and I are very
good examples of that.

We got to the very top of
our profession,

against all the odds.
BRIAN CHUCKLES

Look at us.
BRIAN CHUCKLES

To us!

SHE CHUCKLES

Erm, just to say, er,
if we can keep this between...

Oh, full confidentiality.

Like a doctor, or a priest!
BRIAN CHUCKLES

I remember, er, something
you said in the Commons.

Er, of course, I didn't know you
from Adam back then,

but I-I made a mental note of it.

Oh, really? What was it that I said?
You were talking about...

You used this phrase -

"The furtherance of
remarkable people" -

and, er, I like that.
The aspiration of it.

Didn't matter where you
were from, man or woman.

Yes, exactly. You see,
there are so many, well, men.

Denis and I have to tolerate them,
we have to entertain them here,

and they didn't earn their place,

they just knew someone
who knew someone.

And they bluff and they
blag their way through,

and they have unlimited chances.

But me, if I don't spend hours
and hours preparing every detail...

Me too. I'm-I'm exactly the same.
Exactly the same. Yes. You see,

you never do shake it off, do you?
That feeling one has

of being an outsider.

I think that's why I, um,

I've always been nervous,
er, of, I don't know,

the mob. Mm. The unions, even.

My father was a glass-blower
and, er, very hard-working,

frequently out of work
because of the closed shop.

Mm. They wouldn't accept him,
wouldn't let him in.

I never knew why. And your mother?

She passed away when I was, uh, 12.

Oh, I'm sorry.

She was the stronger one.
Er, maybe too strong, some thought.

Er, she was a bookbinder.

My God, the, er, the luck of that.

That's the only reason
there were books in the house.

She never read them, of course,
but, er, for me,

being on my own a lot, er,

never really being into
having friends,

er, I was very happy.
On my own, book in my lap,

entering brave new worlds.

Well, it seems to me you've
made your own luck, Brian.

I'm very aware,

painfully aware, that one mistake

and "they" will have me out.

One day, doesn't matter what I do,
someone will come for me.

I reckon there's no-one you won't
be able to see off, Margaret.

? My head is in a spin

? My feet don't touch the ground

? Because you're near to me

? My head goes round and round... ?

"This country needs
Margaret Thatcher,

"someone unafraid to offer a vision.

"What can I say? She tickles me,

"and I think I understand her.

"In years to come, great novels
will be written about her."

? Ain't been this way before

? But I know I'm turned on

? It's time for something, baby

? I can't turn off... ?

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

CROWD CHANTING

Ronnie, you're here.

All hail the speech writer!

Did you see the rally at Wembley?

I did. Oh, they were going wild.
Almost hysterical, some of them.

Oh, is hysteria a thing to
be courted and celebrated?

All feels a bit American.
Oh, Ronnie, it's only that, uh,

it proves what a draw she is amongst
the young. You wanted me to take

another run at the text
for Wednesday. Yes.

It's the last party broadcast
before the election day

and I think, we think,

following on from what
we've just seen,

right, Ian? Yes, yeah,
capturing, harnessing the mood.

You know, the energy.
It's real, it's there, so...

Well, I-I... I was going for mood,

a sort of thoughtful mood piece.
No. That's what we want changed.

Hammer home our achievements,

bang-bang-bang, and what
we've still got left to do,

boom-boom-boom.

The people, they're ready now
for some confidence, some ambition,

to go further in the fight, to...
That's what the campaign has been,

bangs and booms. I thought
now, a little night music.

A little night music?

Ronald, we want them on their feet,

like they were today. "Maggie,
Maggie..." Margaret, must everything

always be a fight? Can't it
sometimes be peace and quiet?

Ron's gone wobbly.

We'll need another writer.

What? Sorry, Ron.

Maybe someone from Saatchi's?
No, not an ad man. We want poetry.

This is about instinct.

Somebody who knows what we are
and what we need to say, in his gut.

What about Brian? Brian?

Is that proper?

And he's not a speech writer,
he's a journalist, and a good one.

Ronnie's a playwright,
and a good one.

Thank you. Goodnight.

Goodnight, Ronnie.

It's just... I don't know
what the protocol...

And it's nearly midnight.
Call him. Call Brian.

PHONE RINGS

Uh...

Hello? Brian, forgive the hour.
It's Ian Gow.

You're not around, are you?

Uh, around? For, er...

For what, and when?

We wondered if...
Well, now, actually.

Final party political broadcast

going out the night before
polling day... Uh!

...and Margaret just wondered about
getting your take on it.

She'd just like your brain on it.

Brain of Brian, Brian's brain.

Uh, maybe I should sleep on it,

uh, or check with some of
the... you know, it's OK, to...

It's only that we'd need to get
you into a cab sort of now-ish.

And maybe best just kept
between ourselves.

Less complicated.

For you, I mean.

Brian! Ah. Honestly,
I can't thank you enough.

Have some coffee. Thank you, yes.

Well, I-I saw the clips.

Uh, Wembley. Jimmy Tarbuck,

Kenny Everett. Mm-hm.
Even Steve Davis looked excited,

for Steve Davis. He stinks of booze.
He's been drinking...

Oh, for heaven's sake, Ian!

Go and knit a quilt or something.

Here. Coffee.

Black as the night.

Yes, the rally rather
took us by surprise,

hence why we want to cross
the finishing line

a bit more triumphantly,
with a bit more punch.

Yes, erm, it's-it's
a little, er, tricky, er...

Unwritten rules of journalism,
you know? Church and State...

No, of course.

Oh, completely.

This doesn't have to affect that.

Brian, you're a professional
and I'm a professional. Absolutely.

You know, there's been
some polling done today.

Polling all the time, of course,
but on this policy or that message,

but this was specifically on me.

Well, let me guess,
the same lazy stereotypes,

battle-axe sort of stuff?
Strong, yes, capable,

just not likeable, apparently.

Well, I mean, that's... that's
your public persona.

Er, in private...

I mean, in private,
er, I-I like you.

Thank you, Brian.

And I wasn't fishing.

No, it's just that I
know one has to be...

You see,
when I first came into this,

everyone before me had been so wet.

Wet! And nothing got done.

And I refuse to be that.

No, the moment you
stop driving hard,

the whole thing comes off the road.

It's just...

Oh, I don't know,
maybe I should have shown some,

I don't know, humility or softness.

No, this country is
so bloody lily-livered.

You mustn't bend, Margaret.
There's too much to do.

I wouldn't give them
an inch, I mean it.

At crucial moments like this,
never compromise, never flinch.

And you can forget your naysayers.

You have plenty of people
who... believe in you.

And I do like fun,
you know? I can...

I can tell a joke.

I heard one only the other day.
What was it?

Erm, there's this man
in a hospital, and...

No. No, no, no. No.
...he goes into a bar,

and he's still wearing
his gown, and he...

Oh, no.
Well, I'll... I'll remember it.

But thank you, Brian,
for your faith.

You were one of the first people
to take me seriously,

when everyone else dismissed me
out of hand.

I'll always be grateful for that.

So, shall we get on?

BOTH: ..For freedom, freedom is
the birthright of every citizen.

To preserve and defend that freedom,

to defend it from within
and from without.

Amen!

BOTH: In Britain today,
there is no room

for outdated distinctions
of class or creed.

It doesn't matter who you are,

or who your father is,
or where you came from.

TELEPHONE RINGS

Hello?

MARGARET THATCHER: So, there's
this man who goes into a pub

from the hospital next door

and he's still wearing his gown,

and he's pulling his IV stand
along with him,

you know, all that business,

and the landlord
looks a bit worried.

He says, "Can I help you?"

And our chap says, "Yes, please.
I'd like two pints of lager,

"two Guinness,
er, four gin and tonics,

"and three shots of tequila."

And it's a free world,
so the landlord,

you know,
he's an entrepreneurial sort,

he gives the man his drinks.

And then the man downs them,
one by one,

ending up with the shots of tequila.

And he turns to the landlord
and he says, "Do you know,

"I really shouldn't have drunk
all that, with what I've got."

And the landlord says,
"Why, what have you got?"

And he says, "About �3.50."

SHE HANGS UP

And I will honour that pledge
I made you,

in this unrelenting quest

to break down the old barriers

and build a Britain where it
doesn't matter who your father is,

or where you've come from.

The certainty of liberty...
Remember this moment.

...and the chance of property
ownership. The sense of triumph

on their faces. Look at it.
People should be able

to own their own homes...
They think they're untouchable now.

A landslide.

The Falklands, all of it. Won't need
to be held accountable on camera,

subjected to scrutiny any more.
I passionately believe...

Well, yes, they are strong now,
which means we have to be stronger

and harder and tougher in return,

on behalf of our viewers. OK?

Right? Right.

Mr Lawson? Prime Minister
has asked you to come upstairs.

KNOCK AT DOOR

Yes. Come in.

He's here.

Assuming he accepts, I'll get
it out in the first editions.

All hunky-dory?
Still riding high on a wave?

Hunky-dory.

What's worrying you?

Have you ever, in the moment,
just given a piece of yourself

to somebody, perhaps more than
you meant to, and then,

after the fact, you...?

No, I don't know.

Who? No, it doesn't matter.

Doesn't matter. Show him in.

Nigel. Prime Minister.
Come on in and sit down.

So, Geoffrey is taking
the Foreign brief.

I was rather hoping you would
take up his mantle as Chancellor.

I would like that very much.

It would be a great honour
to accept.

Well, there's no time
like the present.

I thought it would be good
to get into a routine of having

little informal chats
a couple of times a week,

because, you know, the relationship
between Prime Minister

and Chancellor needs to be
very, very close, don't you agree?

Without question, Prime Minister.

Margaret. Margaret.

You've proved yourself
to be able to get things done,

and this term, it's time,
it's time to start selling back

to the private sector everything
that came under public ownership

after the War. We must let them
get out there and thrive,

with confidence. Yes?

Absolutely.
Let's get on with it. Right.

And to that end, Nigel...

...were you thinking
of having a haircut?

Haircut? It's long and unkempt.

That's the other lot, isn't it?
Of course, Margaret.

Prime Minister?

Switchboard have Brian Walden
on the phone.

Erm yes, would you pass that on
to Bernard, please, instead?

Margaret, how are you?

Well, Brian. Always well.

OK. All set?

Four, three, two...

DOOR OPENS

What on earth is going on out there?

Betrayal.

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