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Ben DowellThe Painted Hall
Radio 4, 2.15pmThe English painter James
Thornhill (Hugh Bonneville,
above) is sitting at his desk
ruminating about the
guidebook he is writing
about his “painted hall”.
The baroque-style
masterpiece at Greenwich’s
Old Royal Naval College
was created between 1707
and 1726, and is said to be
the largest painting in the
world. Outside his room,
Thornhill’s daughter, Jane
(Genevieve Gaunt), is
pleading to see him, but he
grumpily refuses to be at
home to a woman who has
fallen for a lowly paint
mixer called William
Hogarth. Ian Kelly’s play is
a moving meditation on
artistic achievement and
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thetimes.co.uk/bulletinsD
o you remember the parodic
Gone with the Wind poster
in the 1980s, depicting
Margaret Thatcher in
Ronald Reagan’s arms, a
mushroom cloud rising behind them,
their coupling billed as the “most
explosive love story ever”? Given how
much the American president admired
her, some said it should have Ronald
swooning in Thatcher’s arms, her
Rhett Butler to his Scarlett O’Hara.
Charles Moore’s two-part series
explored the dynamic of their bond,
with Reagan’s close aides confirming
that, yes, “he really admired her andfeared her to some extent... He was
not a man who liked confrontation.” I
imagine that was code for “he lived in
fear of a handbagging”.
The affection was evidently mutual.
Thatcher’s former PA, Cynthia
Crawford, confided that the first time
he visited her office, Mrs T remarked
on his “wonderful soft voice; he’s so
kind”. They “validated each other” and
stopped one another being “alone”
politically. Get a room!
Another contributor recalled that in
their meetings “she would speak 90
per cent of the time and there were a
lot of ‘yes, Margaret’s”. I think we can
agree this was quite easy to imagine.
Their “special friendship”, thrown
together in the shadow of the Cold
War and the threat of a Russian
nuking, made them a geopolitical
power couple, an unlikely pairing of
movie star and grocer’s daughter-
turned-Iron Lady. Whatever your
personal views of them, this
documentary showed that rarely have
two world leaders looked so simpatico.
It was flattering to Thatcher, as you
might expect, given that Moore was
her official biographer, but it had
impressive access to people with
ringside seats, who could speak more
freely now that four decades have
passed. It acknowledged the
relationship’s downs as well as its ups.
A significant testing point was when
Reagan wanted to impose sanctionson Russia and the Soviet gas pipeline
and was told that Britain didn’t take
orders over who to trade with.
Another was the Falklands conflict.
Bernard Ingham called Alexander
Haig, then the US secretary of state, a
“confounded nuisance” for trying to
reach a settlement between Britain
and Argentina (the US having sort of
taken a neutral stance). Mrs Thatcher
was not for compromising.
America did help Britain, providing
missiles and other assistance. We were
told that throughout the conflict
Thatcher slept upright in a chair in her
clothes. When it ended in victory, her
PA said, she went out into the street to
celebrate then came back into the flat
and “broke down”.
The parts of the film dealing with
Britain’s nuclear weapon base and the
Greenham Common protests covered
well-trodden ground, but they took on
a new significance given what is
happening in Ukraine.
“A world without nuclear weapons
may be a dream but you cannot base a
sure defence on dreams,” Thatcher
once said. “Without far greater trust
and confidence between east and west
than exists at present, a world without
nuclear weapons would be less stable
and more dangerous for all of us.”
They are words that feel horribly
pertinent right now.
For a review of the Peaky Blinders
finale, see News or digital editionsAn unlikely tale of ‘love’ in a Cold War climate
JACK KIGHTLINGER/THE REAGAN LIBRARYCarol
Midgley
TV review
Thatcher & Reagan: A Very
Special Relationship
BBC2
{{{{(Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan at the White House, 1981