Speaking with British Comedy Guide<\/a>, Coogan said of the project: \u201cBrian Walden was the arch, in-depth interviewer in the old days when they had long-form interviews where you\u2019d interviews a politician for 50 minutes; doesn\u2019t happen anymore.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was a little later than [David] Frost but he was in the same mould.<\/p>\n \u201cHe was ITV\u2019s star interviewer, interrogator. And anyway, I\u2019m doing a drama with Harriet Walter as Margaret Thatcher. I start shooting that soon.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued: \u201cMargaret Thatcher and Brian Walden had a kind of strange friendship that was sorely tested towards the end of her tenure, so it\u2019s a fascinating story\u2026 what\u2019s interesting about Margaret Thatcher \u2013 and I was not a fan, I have to say.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cBut the interesting thing about her is that she was state educated, and most politicians, certainly most Conservative politicians, tended to be privately educated.<\/p>\n \u201c[She and Walden] both got scholarships to Oxford, so he felt a kind of kinship, they felt like outsiders as far as being outside the establishment.<\/p>\n \u201cSo that bonded them, but their politics were slightly different. He moved towards hers, becoming disillusioned with Labour, though he was always on the side of the ordinary working man.\u201d<\/p> Coogan recently appeared in BBC drama The Reckoning<\/a>, in which he portrayed Jimmy Savile and was joined in the cast by Fenella Woolgar as Thatcher<\/a>.<\/p>\n He will soon be seen reprising his most famous role as Alan Partridge, appearing in new BBC documentary series And Did Those Feet\u2026 with Alan Partridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n Check out more of our\u00a0Drama<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to find out what\u2019s on.\u00a0<\/strong>For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n Coogan has revealed that he will play ITV political interviewer Brian Walden. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":52985,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/steve-coogan-joins-cast-of-margaret-thatcher-drama-with-succession-star-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/steve-coogan-joins-cast-of-margaret-thatcher-drama-with-succession-star-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/steve-coogan-joins-cast-of-margaret-thatcher-drama-with-succession-star-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/steve-coogan-joins-cast-of-margaret-thatcher-drama-with-succession-star-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/steve-coogan-joins-cast-of-margaret-thatcher-drama-with-succession-star-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/steve-coogan-joins-cast-of-margaret-thatcher-drama-with-succession-star-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/steve-coogan-joins-cast-of-margaret-thatcher-drama-with-succession-star-2048x1366.jpg",2048,1366,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Coogan has revealed that he will play ITV political interviewer Brian Walden.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/52984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Harriet](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/GettyImages-2152665289-a7f5834.jpg?quality=90&resize=619%2C413\" "\\"GettyImages-2152665289\\"\/")
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