Film Night : Tracking Down Maggie

cork | miscellaneous | event notice Saturday January 30, 2010 19:45 by Alan M. - Solidarity Books solidaritybooks at gmail dot com 43 Douglas Street, Cork.

In Tracking Down Maggie, a farcical account of Nick Broomfield's attempts to discover "the real Margaret Thatcher" as she embarks
on an international book tour to promote her autobiography, Broomfield meets his match.

Far from piercing the Iron Lady's armour, Broomfield is foiled at every turn by Head of Security "Sniffer of the Yard" and slippery Press Secretary Julian Seymour. Broomfield talks to the former P.M.'s friends and associates. He even unearths the Grantham neighbour who has enshrined Lady Thatcher's loo in her living room. But he can't get to the Lady herself. Seymour won't answer his phone calls and he's forbidden to ask questions at book signings...