Frances Barber talks politics on TV and playing Margaret Thatcher: "I hated her"

Frances Barber talks politics on TV and playing Margaret Thatcher: "I hated her"

This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine.What’s the view from your sofa?I’ve got a very big television – 65 inches or something – that I’ve had for 20 years and it still works. It’s not HD or anything, but I hate looking at myself anyway, so the idea of myself in HD would just give me a breakdown. Next to that is a painting of my old bulldog Smack, to whom I was devoted, that Sir Ian McKellen gave me.Over your shoulder I can see anoth…