One Network News - Paul Holmes Meets Margaret Thatcher

In 1993 Paul Holmes travelled to the UK to meet Margaret Thatcher, who had recently authored "clear and vivid" memoir The Downing Street Years. In this hour-long interview, the outspoken former PM talks NZ anti-nuclear policy (bad), Communism (evil), and sanctions in South Africa (pointless). The horrors of Bosnia, she argues, show what happens when consensus politics win out over strong leadership. An iron lady explosion is only narrowly avoided after Holmes probes Thatcher on David Lange’s comment that meeting her was like being addressed by a Nazi orator.

Margaret Thatcher was a towering colossus of her time. She transformed her country. She turned it from a country beset by an adverse image of itself, and she made it into a crusading world stage trotter.

– David Lange

Key Cast & Crew

Chas Toogood

Producer, Director

Paul Holmes

Interviewer

Michael Holland

Research

Richard Malone

Camera

Peter Watts

Camera

Austin Mitchell

Subject