Best of 2022: The Falklands, 40 years on: A father and son’s story
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In the week between Christmas and New Year, we’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2022.
In April 1982, Captain Christopher Craig set sail with his crew on the frigate HMS Alacrity to the Falkland Islands after Argentina had invaded the British overseas territory. Four decades on, Chris and his son Duncan - then a six-year-old schoolboy in Bournemouth - reflect on that war.
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Guests:
- Captain Christopher Craig, CB, DSC, Royal Navy.
- Duncan Craig, Travel Editor, The Times and The Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Call for Fire: Sea Combat in the Falklands and the Gulf War - A book by Christopher Craig.
Clips: ABC News, The Telegraph, BBC.
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| 0:30.7 | Hello, David Aronovich here. This week we've been listening back to some of our favourite episodes |
| 0:37.6 | of 2022. April marked 40 years since the Fultons War. Manvain joined a father and son on a journey |
| 0:46.6 | through time. As the war rages in Ukraine and every day brings news of fresh horror, |
| 0:59.8 | it's a poignant moment to be marking the 40th anniversary of another war. A war that sometimes |
| 1:07.6 | gets forgotten. A war where a sovereign territory, a group of islands were invaded by a big tyrannical |
| 1:15.6 | neighbour, a neighbour who didn't respect their borders or democracy. It would appear the son |
| 1:21.8 | has set on yet another corner of the British Empire, this one far down in the South Atlantic. |
| 1:27.1 | Argentina today invaded and seized the Falkland Islands which have been under British rule for nearly |
| 1:31.8 | 150 years. Back then, Britain had sailed in to fight for the islanders. Britain promptly sent several |
| 1:41.6 | of her majesty's warships steaming south and appealed to the United Nations. It all seems like |
| 1:46.9 | something out of the 18th century but the British and for that matter the Americans are not amused. |
| 1:52.3 | The Falkland's war isn't studied at school and for many in Britain it's fading from our collective |
| 2:01.4 | memory. But for the islanders and the British armed forces who went to their rescue, the memory |
| 2:08.4 | looms large. Hello, Manvain, nice to see you again. Hello, Dad. Thank you for having a couple of |
| 2:16.1 | guests. For a little reminder, I headed down to a leafy town in Surrey on a beautiful sunny morning. |
| 2:24.6 | I'd come to see Duncan Craig, the travel editor at the Times and the Sunday Times, and Duncan's father, |
| 2:31.6 | Chris. This is Chris. Hi, Manvain. Yes. Thank you. Hello, Chris. Not Christopher. I always feel like |
| 2:40.5 | done something terrible, which everybody wrong. Back in 1982, Chris Craig was the captain of the |
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