Wars That Shaped The World

2 - Sink the Belgrano


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‘I wanted to get out alive - I didn’t want to die.’ The taskforce hurriedly assembled to retake the Falkland Islands departed in a blaze of red-white-and-blue and sailed south - how would Argentina and her navy respond? As the diplomats shuttled back and forth across the Atlantic trying to prevent conflict, the taskforce steamed ever closer to the danger zone. Ahead of them British submarines kept watch - and spotted a potentially lethal threat, an Argentine battleship, the General Belgrano. What happened next remains the most deadly and most contested moment of the Falklands War. 


Narrated by Paul Waggott

Written by Robin Scott Elliot

Production and Sound Design by Holy Smokes Audio

Executive Producers Tony Pastor + Neil Fearn

A Goalhanger Podcasts Production


Cast list:


Alejandro Teran

Thomas Mitchells

Tim Skinner

George Still

Marta da Silva

Gerardo Cabal

Neizan Fernandez

Darcey Ferguson



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