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The play focuses on the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the British government's handling of the diplomatic breakdown over the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands (the Islas Malvinas to the Argentines), which was United Kingdom's largest Foreign Affairs emergency since the Suez Crisis of 1956.
- Docudrama
Apr 10, 2002 · The Falklands Play: Directed by Michael Samuels. With Patricia Hodge, James Fox, John Standing, Michael Cochrane. On April 2, 1982, Britain went to war to regain the Falkland Islands.
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- Drama, War
- Michael Samuels
- 2002-04-10
TV-PG. 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...
Apr 10, 2002 · The Falklands Play Ian Curteis's once-controversial dramatisation of how the Thatcher government went to war against Argentina to regain the Falkland Islands. Show more
The Falklands Play. Ian Curteis's once-controversial dramatisation of how the Thatcher government went to war against Argentina to regain the Falkland Islands.
Dec 1, 2023 · The Falklands Play By Ian Curteis. Topics. drama. Controversial account of how Margaret Thatcher's government went to war to regain the Falkland Islands in 1982.
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.
