Forty years ago this April, British forces sailed to the south Atlantic to reclaim islands that had been invaded by Argentina’s military junta –a remote archipelago known to that South American nation as the Malvinas, and to Britons as the Falklands. The conflict that ensued is the subject of a BBC podcast aimed primarily at those aged 35 and under – too young to remember the Falklands War, which lasted for 74 days in 1982.
Hosted by broadcaster and former Royal Marine JJ Chalmers and historian Professor Helen Parr, whose uncle died on the final day of the conflict, the podcast features interviews vividly bringing the recent past to life – including with a paratrooper who fought in the bloodiest encounters of the war.