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BG - Bob Godfrey Archive
- MW - Margaret Thatcher, Where am I now?
  - 2 - Scripts and story development, Episodes 1-5 [Pre-production]

Ref No	BG/MW/2/2
Title	Script for episode one
Description	Script, some writing in red, possibly suggesting some changes Synopsis: . The episode starts with Margaret Thatcher giving a speech relating to how the nation is 'strong, proud confident and free' yet people are 'ungrateful' and she should have listed to her dad.(scene in background looks at a mirror and a dressing table, where she is surrounded by oil of ulay, brasso, and is put together, as you would a robot [possibly referring to her being the 'Iron Lady']. The confident and free nation is represented by Tony Blair and Cherie Blair standing on the battlemounts waving. The scene then cuts ('a wobbly ripply dissolve back in time' to her dad Alderman Alfred Roberts, in a grocer, arguing with a irate customer. He tells his shop assistant Mabel he'll deal with her later, then talks to his daughter, a young Margaret Thatcher, explaining that you should 'never underestimate the power of tin food. Constable 'Badger' Courage interupts with news Hitler has occupied the Rhineland, and clips cutting to commentator and Hitler. It then cuts to Margaret writing a letter with a voiceover, protesting that Hitler has banned the Rotarians, with an invite to tea. It then cuts to Neville Chamberlain declaring war, then to Alderman saying that there are preparing food parcels for the deserving poor (Hardtack and tins of gruel). When delivering the food parcels the 'paupers' run away and Margaret and Alderman hit them with the food cans provoking 'blood curdling shrieks'. There is a fade out to a crescendo of war time sounds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYyZNHlGqhU
Date	Undated [1999]
Subject	Animation
Level	Item
Repository	Farnham
RelatedNameCode	DS/UK/23
	DS/UK/21
	DS/UK/16

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Code	PersonName	Dates
DS/UK/23	Thatcher; Margaret (1925-2013); Politican	1925-2013
DS/UK/21	Godfrey; Bob (1921-2013); Animator	1921-2013
DS/UK/16	Bell; Steve (1951-); Cartoonist	1951-

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