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.
- Created by
- Martyn Gregory
- Origin
- GB
Cast
- Bill HamiltonSelf - Reporter (voice)
- George HebblewhiteSelf
- Ken MaginnisSelf - Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP
- Danny MorrisonSelf - Sinn Fein
- Willian O'DwyerSelf - Father of Ella
- Dennis PalmerSelf - Taxi Driver
- Jack ReeceSelf - Det Chief Supt Jack Reece (archive footage)
- Peter SherrySelf
- Bill SlackSelf - Former Headmaster
Margaret ThatcherSelf (archive footage)