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The Falklands Play

The Falklands Play
Published 15 Apr 2013   Follow @SamRoggeveen

Fairfax websites have been spruiking this dramatic account of British politics leading up to the Falklands War since the weekend.

You can watch it in one hit (with ads) here, but the BBC also has it in ten parts on its YouTube channel. I had not heard of this production before, but according to Wikipedia, it had a difficult birth, with the BBC canceling it in the mid-80s because it was too pro-Thatcher. It was eventually screened in 2002 and the playwright now wants it shown again.  

Here's part 1:



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