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It was originally commissioned by the BBC in 1983, for production and broadcast in 1986, but was subsequently shelved by Controller of BBC One Michael Grade due to its pro-Margaret Thatcher stance and alleged jingoistic tone.
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A dramatic account of the political events leading up to the 1982 Falklands war, the BBC commissioned the TV play from writer Ian Curteis in 1986, but shelved it because of its pro-Margaret ...
It was originally commissioned by the BBC in 1983, for production and broadcast in 1986, but was subsequently shelved by Controller of BBC One Michael Grade due to its pro-Margaret Thatcher stance and alleged jingoistic tone. This prompted a press furore over media bias and censorship.
The inside story of how the Thatcher government went to war to regain the Falkland Islands. Ian Curteis was the writer of two well-received BBC plays depicting British Prime Ministers faced with international crises - Churchill and the Generals (tx. 23/9/1979) and Suez 1956 (tx. 25/11/1979).
- Michael Samuels
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- Jeremy Howe
- Ian Curteis
The play was not staged until 2002, when it was broadcast in separate adaptations on BBC Television and Radio. The play focuses on the methods by which British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the British government handled the United Kingdom's largest Foreign Affairs emergency since the Suez Crisis of 1956.
The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War. The play was written by Ian Curteis, an experienced writer who had started his television career in drama, but had increasingly come to specialise in dramatic reconstructions of history.
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Patricia Hodge stars as Margaret Thatcher opposite James Fox (Lord Carrington) as she presides of the backroom manoeuvrings that lead to the Falklands War. I...
