The Fall of Margaret Thatcher: A Whodunnit.

A presentation by Lord Moore and Kate Ehrman

 for the Tennant Lecture Series

Tuesday 30 April 2024

Lecture in the E M Forster at 8pm

Drinks in the Theatre Foyer from 7.15pm

How did Margaret Thatcher change and divide Britain? How did her model of combative female leadership help shape the way we live now? How did the woman who won the Cold War and three general elections in succession find herself pushed out by her own MPs?

Charles Moore’s and Kate Ehrman’s semi-dramatisation is based on unique access to Margaret Thatcher herself, her papers and her closest associates. It tells the story of her last period in office, her combative retirement and the controversy that surrounded her. It lays bare her growing quarrels with colleagues and reveals the truth about her political assassination, depicting the last three days, before her resignation was announced in November 1990. 

In the dramatisation, all the dialogue is 'real', in that it comes from real sources - diaries, interviews, speeches and letters. Nothing is invented for the performance, which will be followed by questions.

Charles Moore’s bestselling and definitive biography of Britain’s first female Prime Minister, has been described as ‘one of the great biographical achievements of our times’.

This event is fully accessible.