This is extracts from the famous live broadcast of the Falkland Islands Broadcasting Service on the night of the Argentine Invasion of the Falkland Islands 01-02 April 1982.
FIBS announcer Patrick Watts famously kept the station on the air throughout the fighting on the night of the invasion and into the beginning of the occupation.
Part 1 of this broadcast includes live phone interviews with the indomitable and defiant Falkland Islands Governor Rex Hunt while under fire at the battle at Government House, live phone reports from listeners updating the situation as it happened, and the the role of Patrick Watts acting as a message relay between British and Argentine forces during negotiations for the truce talks on 02 April. Includes FIBS relay of the BBC World Service with news reports on the crisis, unaware of the actual events happening in the Falklands.
The events of the invasion and the FIBS broadcast were depicted in the 1992 BBC film, 'An Ungentlemanly Act', which included direct transcripts and adaptations from the actual FIBS broadcast.
This presentation is dedicated to Patrick Watts of the Falkland Islands Broadcasting Station, the indomitable defenders of Government House: Governor Rex Hunt and his staff, the 67 Royal Marines of Naval Party 8901, 11 Royal Navy sailors of HMS Endurance, 25 soldiers of the Falkland Islands Defence Force and several civilian volunteers. Long after the end of the British Empire, this unlikely scene of a British Governor, marines and sailors defending Government House with the flag left flying at night against overwhelm odds was reminiscent of an earlier time. At the end of the empire, these men showed the stuff of which the empire was made.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Ungentlemanly_Act
