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
Ian Gow - Paul
Brooke
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 - Paul
Brooke
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 and A Week In
The West End were also broadcast on BBC 2 (though in their case not on BBC
4).
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
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