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When Thatcher took performance lessons from Laurence Olivier, it changed the course of her political destiny | Tim Walker

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The PM’s makeover collaboration was kept a closely guarded secret for fear it would hurt her ‘ordinary housewife’ image

  • Tim Walker is a writer and broadcaster. When Maggie Met Larry is on Radio 4 at 3…

86 days ago

After 50 years, can’t we shut down this cult of Margaret Thatcher? Just look at the mess she made of Britain | Polly Toynbee

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A whole slew of dramas and plays mark half a century since her election as Tory leader. But there is too much gloss, when so many people are still suffering

Now she’s an opera. Yet another myth-making…

3 months ago

‘She would have been in awe of him’: how Laurence Olivier gave Margaret Thatcher private seduction lessons

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New drama, When Maggie Met Larry, reveals exactly how the world’s most famous actor coached the fledgling Iron Lady

In 1972, a nervous Margaret Thatcher went to Laurence Olivier’s London home for a le…

‘A nice little cameo that Judi Dench hasn’t got her paws on’: Joan Plowright’s screen career blossomed with age | Peter Bradshaw

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Her film breakthrough in 1960’s The Entertainer was a harbinger of the calmness and strength she brought as a distinguished character actor – and as her lovable self in Nothing Like a Dame

Joan Plowright was a dynamic force for change in British theatre

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The remarkable actor symbolised a radical new generation to her husband Laurence Olivier’s theatrical establishment

• Joan Plowright, celebrated star of stage and screen, dies aged 95
• Joan Plowright:…

Joan Plowright, celebrated star of stage and screen, dies aged 95

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Actor helped shape British postwar theatre through her performances at the Royal Court, National Theatre and in the West End

• Michael Billington: Plowright was a dynamic force
• Joan Plowright: a life…

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