Mummy's War - Channel Four - 21:00 tonight

[SO19]

Heads up, should be an interesting watch.

Twenty-five years after the end of the Falklands War, Carol Thatcher travels to the Falkland Islands and Argentina. In this highly personal journey into history she compares her own memories of the conflict against the experiences of people for whom the war was a major turning point in their lives. In Mummy's War Carol also confronts her mother Margaret Thatcher's legacy as a heroine for one side, and a deeply loathed villain to the other.

On the Falklands, Carol finds herself unprepared for the islanders' fervent determination to repel Argentina's continuing claims on the territory by whatever means: diplomacy, economic deals or even military force. Amidst the stories of the war - some funny, some incredibly moving - she finds a people for whom the conflict is not a memory, but an on-going struggle to maintain a way of life.

In Argentina, Carol is met at the airport by protesting Argentine army veterans who want her thrown out of the country as the daughter of an alleged war criminal. Both sets of veterans share one thing in common: for them the conflict is not over. For Argentines it is an open wound that cannot heal until the Malvinas are theirs; for the islanders the struggle to remain British is what defines them and gives them strength.

[harry hackedoff]

Waste of money mate, why not send Mark Thatcher.
Be just as relevent.
There are good progs waiting to be made about Down South.
This just doesn`t sound like one

[SO19]

Channel four programming is not exactly my favourate considering their views, but hopefully, this won't be skewed in that way.

There are good progs waiting to be made about Down South.

Agree completely.

[Wholley]

why not send Mark Thatcher.

He'd just get lost again

[SO19]

Wasn't a bad program and she defintely stood her ground when visiting Argentina.

[Wholley]

Between the plums in her mouth and the lithp I couldn't understand much of what she said

[Sully]

I think Thatcher put this country on its arse and in some respects Blair is carrying on the good work - peas in a pod those two. Were the deaths then and more since on our side really worth another term in office to her?

That said I think Carole did well over there and it was a good programme.

[harry hackedoff]

Look on t`bright side, Sull.
We could`ve still had Ted Heath
Deffo a heterosexual, before anyone starts

Maggie isn`t getting any of these anniversary gigs due to ill health, fair enough. So why not Pym or Carrington or that dick with the daft overcoat, Douglass Herd. Or even me old mate Costa Mendez, `es a right card, innee
They`d all be more suitable than Carole Thatcher

By the way, isn`t she really called Carol?
yours aye,
Harolde