A Toxic Love Story
To Kill the Cabinet
BBC documentary on the police investigation that led to the capture of Patrick Magee: the man responsible for the Brighton Bomb. On 12 October 1984, Magee made an audacious attempt to kill Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet by exploding a bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton during the Conservative Party Conference. The Prime Minister was unharmed but five people were killed in the attack and many more injured.
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All people involvedB Bill HamiltonSelf - Reporter (voice)G George HebblewhiteSelfK Ken MaginnisSelf - Fermanagh and South Tyrone MPD Danny MorrisonSelf - Sinn FeinW Willian O'DwyerSelf - Father of EllaD Dennis PalmerSelf - Taxi DriverJ Jack ReeceSelf - Det Chief Supt Jack Reece (archive footage)P Peter SherrySelfB Bill SlackSelf - Former Headmaster
Margaret ThatcherSelf (archive footage)D Daphne VloetSelfI Iris VloetSelf
Margaret ThatcherSelf (archive footage)D Daphne VloetSelfI Iris VloetSelfWhere to watch
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Release date 1986-06-12
Countries United Kingdom
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