Witness History
Witness History
Mrs Thatcher’s ground-breaking Soviet TV interview
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March 31, 2021
9 minutes
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How Mrs Thatcher shook up the Soviet media with a landmark interview in Moscow in 1987 focusing on nuclear disarmament. It was broadcast unedited and helped bring in the era of “glasnost.” Bob Howard talks to Boris Kalyagin, one of the three Soviet journalists who interviewed the British prime minister.
Margaret Thatcher, circa 1993. copyright Jeff Overs / BBC