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To Kill the Cabinet (1986)
Directed by Martyn Gregory
Documentary · 36m
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.
Cast
B
Bill Hamilton
Self - Reporter (voice)
G
George Hebblewhite
Self
K
Ken Maginnis
Self - Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP
D
Danny Morrison
Self - Sinn Fein
W
Willian O'Dwyer
Self - Father of Ella
D
Dennis Palmer
Self - Taxi Driver
J
Jack Reece
Self - Det Chief Supt Jack Reece (archive footage)
P
Peter Sherry
Self
B
Bill Slack
Self - Former Headmaster
Margaret Thatcher
Self (archive footage)
D
Daphne Vloet
Self
I
Iris Vloet
Self
Crew
- Director
- Martyn Gregory
- Producer
- Martyn Gregory
Details
- Release date
- 1986-06-12
- Runtime
- 36m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English