Martin Jarvis is working on his sulk as he prepares to play Ted Heath in the West End debut of Michael McManus’s play Maggie and Ted, which will be on at the Garrick at the end of the month. McManus, who worked for both Heath and Thatcher, calls their relationship “the most notorious feud in modern political history” and is delighted to have signed an actor he has admired since the 1970s. “My first clear memory of Martin would have been in a Doctor Who story, in which he played a decent but burnt-out politician who struggled in vain to endear himself to a fickle population,” he says. “So he should be ideally suited to Heath.” Jarvis even has experience of irritating Thatcher. “TheSponsored

Source: The Times June 11, 2021 23:03 UTC