TV
BBC Four is making a docu-drama about Margaret Thatcher's first years in politics.
The film, billed as "light-hearted and imaginative", is written by Tony Saint and called Margaret Thatcher – The Long Walk to Finchley.
It looks at her decade-long battle to get selected for a winnable Tory seat so she could enter parliament and will star Andrea Riseborough, of BBC Two's Party Animals, as the Prime Minister to be.
Rory Kinnear (Mansfield Park) will play her husband Denis and Samuel West (Cambridge Spies) will be Ted Heath, who becomes Prime Minister before her.
Executive producers Kate Triggs said: "Whatever your views about Margaret Thatcher, she changed the country we live in irrevocably. And yet she remains something of an enigma.
"Although she is, arguably, the best known living Briton, we hardly know her as a person at all. Tony Saint's witty, humourous and imaginative script portrays her as a living, breathing young woman up against that most conservative of all institutions – the British Tory Party."
Filming is due to begin in London this month.
The film, billed as "light-hearted and imaginative", is written by Tony Saint and called Margaret Thatcher – The Long Walk to Finchley.
It looks at her decade-long battle to get selected for a winnable Tory seat so she could enter parliament and will star Andrea Riseborough, of BBC Two's Party Animals, as the Prime Minister to be.
Rory Kinnear (Mansfield Park) will play her husband Denis and Samuel West (Cambridge Spies) will be Ted Heath, who becomes Prime Minister before her.
Executive producers Kate Triggs said: "Whatever your views about Margaret Thatcher, she changed the country we live in irrevocably. And yet she remains something of an enigma.
"Although she is, arguably, the best known living Briton, we hardly know her as a person at all. Tony Saint's witty, humourous and imaginative script portrays her as a living, breathing young woman up against that most conservative of all institutions – the British Tory Party."
Filming is due to begin in London this month.
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