Synopsis
What if Patrick Magee and his accomplices had succeeded and blown up Mrs. Thatcher?
- Programme: Secret History
- Series: 11
- Episode: 1: Brighton Bomb
- Channel: Channel 4
- Broadcast year: 2003
- History
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