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Lord Charles Moore

Lord Charles Moore is the authorised biographer of Britain’s first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. Together with Kate Ehrman, they will present ‘The Fall of Margaret Thatcher: A Whodunnit’, a semi-dramatisation of Thatcher’s final three days in office. Combining voiced characters with illustrated narrative and explanation, the event will offer a fascinating insight into the critical moments leading up to the Prime Minister’s resignation.

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'The Fall of Margaret Thatcher: A Whodunnit'

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 full account, based on unique access to Margaret Thatcher herself, her papers and her closest associates, tells the story of her last period in office, her combative retirement and the controversy that surrounded her even in death. It includes the Fall of the Berlin Wall which she had fought for and the rise of the modern EU which she feared. It lays bare her growing quarrels with colleagues and reveals the truth about her political assassination.

Moore's three-part biography of Britain's most important peacetime prime minister paints an intimate political and personal portrait of the victories and defeats, the iron will but surprising vulnerability of the woman who dominated in an age of male power. This is the full, enthralling st