Patrick Magee
Acting
Biography
Patrick Joseph Magee, often referred to as the Brighton bomber, is a former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer. In 1984 he planted a bomb in the Grand Hotel, Brighton, targeting Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister, and her Cabinet; the bomb killed five people.
Known For
World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.
World in Action
A look at the Brighton bombing of 1984, featuring new testimony from many of those affected and a revealing interview with the man who planted the bomb, Patrick Magee.
Bombing Brighton: The Plot to Kill Thatcher
Brighton bomber Patrick Magee talks exclusively to Peter Taylor about how and why he planted a bomb in the Grand Hotel, while intelligence experts and bomb specialists speak for the first time about how they foiled a follow-up campaign on an even more devastating scale.