The Falklands Play Quotes

The Falklands Play is a Docudrama that debuted in 2002 on BBC Four. The Falklands Play ended its run in 1970.

It features Jeremy Howe (producer) as producer. The Falklands Play is executive produced by Richard Fell.

The Falklands Play is recorded in English and originally aired in United Kingdom. Each episode of The Falklands Play is 90 minutes long.

The cast includes: Colin Stinton as Alexander Haig, Patricia Hodge as Margaret Thatcher, and Richard Cordery as Tom Enders.

The Falklands Play Quotes

Colin Stinton as Alexander Haig

• (Colin Stinton) "We are trying to de-escalise a war."
• (Patricia Hodge) "So am I. But you do not do it by appeasement. You increase its chances. You see this table? This was where Neville Chamberlain sat in 1938 when he spoke on the wireless about the Czechs as "far away people about whom we know nothing and with whom we have so little in common". Munich. Appeasement. A world war followed because of that irresponsible, woolly-minded, indecisive, slip-shod attitude and the deaths of 45 million people."
• (Richard Cordery) "The fact that we have to treat Britain and Argentina even-handedly for the purpose of negotiation --"
• (Patricia Hodge) "How DARE you treat us even-handedly? Argentina is the aggressor, the invader. A fourth-rate, cruel, unstable, corrupt, brutal regime with no morals or scruples whatever. They torture and murder their political opponents by the most ghastly Nazi methods. And this is the regime you wish to give even a foothold over the British citizens?"

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