Well, we're talking a lot about the future, the future of space travel, but I would like to take you back to the past, specifically the year in 1993.

Margaret Thatcher has been out of power for three years after serving as Britain's longest reigning 20th century prime minister.

She's on the publicity trail with a new book about her time in Downing Street. However,

she is surrounded by scandal and gadfly British documentarian Nick Broomfield is on her trail

in the 1994 documentary Tracking Down Maggie. The simplest way to explain what this film is, is that it's like

Roger and me, except, you know, instead of Michael Moore, it's Nick Broomfield, instead of Roger,

it's Margaret Thatcher. With the important difference that with Michael Moore, he obviously knew that he

was never going to meet Roger Smith. He never really cared about getting past the secretaries and the

security people,

whereas Nick Broomfield, well, first of all, I think Nick Broomfield is perhaps a little less

ideologically clear on what he's doing than Michael Moore was, but what also differentiates

Broomfield from Moore is that he is genuinely dedicated to making life as difficult for his subject

as possible. He genuinely wants to get as close

to her and be as annoying to her for as long as he can. I started out being a little lukewarm on this

film and I have to say by the end of it, I'm kind of sold on it as a project.

We were finally just inches away. What was particularly annoying was Lady Thatcher's ability to pretend anything she didn't care for or want to see simply didn't exist.

And that way would just go away.

So this is where I really started to like the film and what it was doing.

Because I think that the, you know, Maggie Thatcher on tour

stick that it captures is pretty extraordinary.

You know, she's doing these events and she's sort of nominally doing them as a public figure.

But, you know, you watch enough of these and you realize, you know, it's not just that

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