Franks Report on Falklands War

Title

Franks Report on Falklands War

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

TX Date

22 Jan 1983

Year of production

1983

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Duration

00:19:25

Description

Report on reaction to the Franks Report on the events leading up to the Falklands War. Includes Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Commons reading of the passage absolving her Government of blame; interviews with former Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington (Peter Carington) (by Judith Dawson) on his decision at the time to resign with his ministers Richard Luce and Humphrey Atkins; Conservative Party Chairman Cecil Parkinson; inquiry chairman Lord Franks (Oliver Franks); former Labour Foreign Office minister and author of an earlier Falklands report Lord Chalfont (Alun Gwynne Jones); journalist Max Hastings who sailed with the Task Force. Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Peter Carington; Judith Dawson; Cecil Parkinson; Alun Gwynne Jones; Max Hastings; Oliver Franks

Keywords

Reports; Government; Great Britain; Humphrey Atkins; Foreign policy; Peter Carington; Foreign offices; Falklands War (1982); Argentina; Falkland Islands; Intelligence service; Cabinet ministers; Resignation (political); Richard Luce; Franks Report

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