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🗓️ 20 June 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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1:15.0 | Hello and welcome to a specially extended episode of Battleground, the Falklands. |
1:19.9 | It's Patrick Bishop here and today Saul David and I will be discussing the first stage of the grand finale of the campaign. |
1:22.5 | That is the very intense battles for the summits of the mountains. |
1:26.6 | Big hills they are really, that guard the |
1:28.8 | approach to Port Stanley. And their capture, or otherwise, is going to finally decide the outcome |
1:35.1 | of the war. In telling the story, we've got some great witness interviews, but also some rare |
1:40.0 | actuality of a brilliant eve of landing speech by the CEO of 42 Commando and a recording of the |
1:46.9 | actual fighting when the shot and shell were flying. So where are we? We're now three weeks |
1:52.5 | into the land campaign and the weather is steadily worsening as the savage Falklands winter sets in. |
1:59.0 | Every hour counts now if stalemate, which would have had dreadful political |
2:03.4 | and diplomatic consequences for Margaret Thatcher and her government, is to be avoided. |
2:08.8 | Last time we told the story of the tragedy at Fitzroy Bluff Cove, when the Sir Galahad was attacked by |
2:15.1 | Argentinian aircraft. That was on the 8th of June, |
2:18.9 | and that resulted in 56 dead and many more wounded. Most of the casualties were from the Welsh |
2:24.5 | guards who were moving forward to join up with the rest of five brigade, who you will remember |
2:29.6 | had controversially been thrust along the southern side of the island to take part in the final |
2:34.9 | attack. This at first sight seems like a huge setback. Any faltering, any delay might cripple the vital |
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