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Article: Well surprise, surprise - 25 years on - the BBC still won't celebrate Mrs Thatcher's role in the Falklands War.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- March 30, 2007
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Byline: GEOFFREY WANSELL
AS BRITAIN commemorates the 25th anniversary of the start of the Falklands War on Monday, with tributes to the 255 British servicemen who sacrificed their lives, there will be little celebration of the Prime Minister who refused to let the Argentines prevail.
Yet the BBC, had it the will, could be screening an acclaimed 'factual drama' that highlights what was really going on behind the scenes at the Ministry of Defence and No. 10 during the battle for the South Atlantic islands.
The Falklands Play, by Ian Curteis, has been hotly debated over the past two decades - not least by the BBC, which dismissed it at the time as 'jingoistic ...