The Alan Clark Diaries
Louise Gold
portrayed as Mrs Thatcher (side and back views only), BBC TV, Recorded 28
November & 11 December 2003; First screened on BBC 4 on 15, 22, 29
January, 5 February and the 12 & 19 February 2004, and on BBC 2 on 17, 24
and 31 March and the 7, 15 and 22 April 2004 - she appears in episodes 2, 3,
and 4.
Cast
Episode 1: March Of The Grey Men
(Recorded 28 November 2003; Broadcast Thursday 15 January 2004 on BBC 4 &
Wednesday 17 March 2004 on BBC 2)
Alan Clark - John Hurt
Jane Clark - Jenny Agutter
Peter Morrison - Nicholas Jones
Jenny Easterbrook - Julia Davis
Donald Derx - Mark Tandy
Sir Robert Armstrong - Timothy West
Dave - Eric Richard
Tristan Garel-Jones - Hugh Fraser
Episode 2: The Lady (Recorded 28
November 2003; Broadcast Thursday 22 January 2004 on BBC 4 & Wednesday 24
March 2004 on BBC 2)
Alan Clark - John Hurt
Jane Clark - Jenny Agutter
Jenny Easterbrook - Julia Davis
Tom King - Peter Blythe
Peter Morrison - Nicholas Jones
Jonathan Aitken - Jeremy Clyde
Margaret Thatcher - Louise Gold
Episode 3: Foreign Parts (Recorded 11
December 2003; Broadcast Thursday 29 January 2004 on BBC 4 & Wednesday 31 March
2004 on BBC 2)
Alan Clark - John Hurt
Jane Clark - Jenny Agutter
Rose - Charlotte Emmerson
Jonathan Aitken - Jeremy Clyde
Tristen Garel-Jones - Hugh Fraser
Michael Branford - William Armstrong
Margaret Thatcher - Louise Gold
Dave - Eric Richard
Episode 4: Defence Of The Realm
(Recorded 11 December 2003; Broadcast Thursday 5 February 2004 on BBC 4 &
Wednesday 7 April 2004 on BBC 2)
Alan Clark - John Hurt
Jane Clark - Jenny Agutter
Julian Scopes - Julian Wadham
Margaret Thatcher - Louise Gold
Tom King - Peter Blythe
Charles Powell - Terence Harvey
Ian Gow -
Peter Morrison - Nicholas Jones
Episode 5: Into The Wilderness
(Recorded 23 December 2003; Broadcast Thursday 12 February 2004 on BBC 4 &
Thursday 15 April 2004 on BBC 2)
Alan Clark - John Hurt
Jane Clark - Jenny Agutter
Tristan Garel-Jones - Hugh Fraser
Julian Scopes - Julian Wadham
Tom King - Peter Blythe
Valerie Harkness - Mel Martin
Episode 6: Leaving Home (Recorded 23 December
2003; Broadcast Thursday 19 February 2004 on BBC 4 & Thursday 22 April 2004
on BBC 2)
Alan Clark - John Hurt
Jane Clark - Jenny Agutter
Tristan Garel-Jones - Hugh Fraser
Cabbie - Jonathan Stuart
Barbara Lloyd - Jan Francis
Big Barry - Mike Burnside
Jonathan Aitken - Jeremy Clyde
Production Team
Dramatised by - Jon Jones
Producer - Kate Lewis
Director - Jon Jones
For an Episode Guide / Review, of Louise
Gold’s appearances in The Alan
Clark Diaries please click here.
Louise Gold had previously played caricatures of Margaret
Thatcher twice on the
Eric
Richard had previously appeared
in The Bill
Rachel And The Roarettes, Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence
Fee, Rita Rudner, City Lights, A Kick Up The Archive, Alexei
Sayle’s Merry-Go-Round, A Week In The
West End, and, Transmission:
Impossible With Ed And Oucho were also broadcast on BBC 2 (though in their
case not on BBC 4).
Nicholas Jones has gone on to appear in Darling of
The Day.
John Hurt
appeared in ITV’s 50 Greatest Shows.
Critics Comments
“The
dramatic scenes in and around the Palace of Westminster did not, I felt, add
much — al though Louise Gold presents an uncannily accurate evocation of
Margaret Thatcher’s voice, issuing from behind a bouffant hairstyle.” Anthony
Howard, THE TIMES, 13 January 2004.
Links about The Alan Clark Diaries (TV dramatisation)
The BBC’s (BBC 4) page for the programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/cinema/alanclarkdiaries/
The Times Online’s column which included a review of the series: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-961345,00.html actually the article itself is: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1067-961345_2,00.html
BBC Programme Catalogue section for the programme: http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/series/THE+ALAN+CLARK+DIARIES
and individual episode entries: http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/LDXN182F, http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/LDXN183A, and, http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/LDXN184T
Carrentals article by Lisa Davidson mentioning actresses who have played Mrs Thatcher on (big or small) scrren: http://news.carrentals.co.uk/meryl-streep-portrays-margaret-thatcher-in-the-iron-lady-biopic-34237422.html
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