08-10-2024 23:15 via theguardian.com

Bombing Brighton: The Plot to Kill Thatcher review – her shaky post-blast interview says it all

This careful, intelligent documentary about the 1984 IRA attack on the Conservative party conference is largely a study of its victim – and her failure to understand the issues that led to itBombing Brighton: The Plot to Kill Thatcher is a documentary with a gap in the middle. Its main interviewee is the Brighton bomber himself, Patrick Magee, who in 1984 placed an incendiary device in the Grand hotel, timed to explode during the Conservative party conference. It did so in the early hours
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