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Pictured: Lindsay Duncan as Margaret Thatcher in new TV series

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Lindsay Duncan appears to have captured the likeness of Lady Thatcher in the first pictures from the new BBC drama about her.... more

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Spellbinding tale of confused smother love

12.05.08
Amazing performances seal the success for That Face; 21-year-old Polly Stenham's play about a twisted family and incest.... more

That face to watch

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Actress who stripped off in Rome is set to play Margaret Thatcher in TV drama

08.04.08
Lindsay Duncan, whose screen credits include Rome and Star Wars, has been confirmed to play Margaret Thatcher in a BBC2 drama about the former prime minister. The new programme, titled Margaret, will follow the Conservative leader's final days in office and the betrayal by her male Cabinet colleagues in 1990 ... more

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21-year-old's first play hits West End

18.02.08
A sellout first play by 21-year-old writer Polly Stenham is to transfer to the West End.... more

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Promising debut

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