An examination of the Thatcher legacy in the 1980s with extracts from news, sporting events, television and film hits during her years in office. Documents her rise to power and fall, from early footage of her pop dancing in 1979 just before winning the General Election to her departure from Number Ten in 1990. Extracts from her more difficult television interviews with Robin Day and Brian Walden are included.
A futuristic theme park is devoted to Margaret Thatcher. Actors and Spitting Image puppets are combined for the first time on British television. The Jenkins family are selected by computer to be the first visitors to `Thatcherworld'. They journey through Grantham in the 1920s to the artificial world of the 1980s. Along the way they meet the significant players and events in Margaret Thatcher's life - her father, husband, Ted Heath, the Saatchi brothers, Geoffery Howe, Michael Heseletine and John Major.
Over thirty politicians, historians, journalists and authors give their opinions on how Britain would have developed without Margaret Thatcher.
Children from around Britain offer insights into the character and legacy of Margaret Thatcher.
Throughout the Thatcher era THE MONEY PROGRAMME analysed Britian's economic problems. Now, a decade on, Peter Jay talks to people at the centre of some of the stories.
A number of people relate what they were doing and how they felt the day that Margaret Thatcher resigned.