Tracking Down Maggie
Wed 25 July 10pm.
Filmmaker Nick Broomfield pursues Mrs Thatcher around the UK and USA in 1994.
All he wants is an interview but the former iron lady keeps giving him the slip...
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About Tracking Down Maggie
Nick Broomfield, the original Louis Theroux, goes after "the real Maggie Thatcher" three years after she was forced out of Downing Street. As she sets off on a tour to promote her new book, Broomfield and his team make nuisances of themselves as they try to get close to her, foiled each time by a press secretary who never returns calls, and a sinister chief of security who they name 'Sniffer of the Yard'.
Funny and frightening
Tracking Down Maggie is an alternative portrait of Britain's longest-serving prime minister of the 20th century. Where other filmmakers might have given up, binning the project once it was clear Mrs Thatcher would not cooperate, Broomfield becomes even more determined, hacking into her top secret schedule, triggering security alarms as he waits for her outside a New York hairdresser, shouting at her through her car window at traffic lights and filming through a crack in the back door at a private function.
Essentially Broomfield has failed to make the political documentary he had in mind, but he becomes more and more convinced Thatcher won't speak to him because she has something to hide.
