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The bfi NFTVA makes 'off-air' recordings of all output from BBC terrestrial and digital output for researching and study access purposes. As part of this activity, output from the newly created BBC 4 digital channel has been recorded including 'The Falklands Play', broadcast in 2002. This drama was controversial in taking a pro-Margaret Thatcher, conservative perspective in its telling of the events of the Falklands War of 1982. 'The Falklands Play' was originally written for the BBC by Ian Curteis in 1986 but was said to have been shelved due to its sympathetic portrayal of Margaret Thatcher and her actions during the Falklands conflict. This drama drew attention as the majority of television dramas and documentaries that had previously caused controversy had been anti-establishment in nature. Another significant and debated drama on the subject of the Falklands war is 'Tumbledown' (1988), the real life story of Lieutenant Robert Lawrence, who was paralysed during the war. One of the most famous of ‘banned’ television programmes was 'The War Game' which was shelved by the BBC in 1966 and only eventually screened by it in 1985. |
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