IWM Podcast: Conflict of Interest
The Falklands Conflict
Actor Katherine Parkinson is given a HMS Ardent Association Challenge Coin after the recording of the IWM Podcast for the Falklands Conflict which also featured ARDENT survivor Richard (Richie) Gough and IWM expert John Beales.
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Recorded at the Imperial War Museum in London, the Conflict of Interest Podcast looks at why did the United Kingdom, steered by Margaret Thatcher, send its Navy to defend the Falklands, a tiny group of islands over 8,000 miles from Britain? Why were the islands so important to Argentina and its government? And what are the prospects for reconciliation forty years later?
This edition is part of Series 2 of Conflict of Interest, six celebrities ask the simple questions about the world’s most complex conflicts from the Cold War-era. Who was fighting in Vietnam? What was the Malayan Emergency? Why is Korea divided between North and South? Guided by an IWM curator, each celebrity is taken on a journey through IWM London and HMS Belfast, discovering the objects, people and stories which bring a conflict to life.
