Thatcher and Reagan – A Very Special Relationship

This is a two part series I made for the BBC in which journalist and Thatcher biographer Charles Moore investigates the close political and personal relationship between Thatcher and Reagan from the moment they met till when Reagan left office. We interviewed nearly all the surviving witnesses who’d been in the room when these two world leaders got together. This clip covers the trip Thatcher made to visit Reagan to discuss his Star Wars missile defence system. But she had another agenda. She’d just met Gorbachev of the Soviet Union and wanted to convince Reagan this was a man they could do business with.