Brian and Maggie , PBS ‘ Stephen Frears-directed dramatization of the famously contentious 1989 interview of U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher by broadcast journalist Brian Walden, ends with a caption: “Following their final encounter, in-depth political TV interviews have faded from our screens.”

Unsaid but understood is the notion that we’re all the poorer for this fact. “Now it’s all breakfast TV bollocks: cozy chit-chats on the sofa, five minutes long, questions unanswered, politicians spouting their own agendas,” a character sighs in a scene set circa 1986. It’s hard to argue things have gotten much better in the age of viral TikToks and Truth Social edicts.

Brian and Maggie , PBS ‘ Stephen Frears-directed dramatization of the famously contentious 1989 interview of U.K. Pr

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