Originally commissioned by the BBC in 1987, but wasn't filmed until 2002.
The script used in this movie is an amended and abridged version of the original script. It removed all of the material involving the Junta and the Pope.
Author Ian Curteis complained in the 1980s that the BBC had refused to turn his script into a television play because it was pro-Thatcher. His script was published at the time, but it wasn't until 2002 that it was filmed, with some changes. The background to the political row, which led to accusations of left-wing bias in the BBC, was discussed in The Falklands Play Row (2002).
A version of the script, featuring much of the same cast, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002 around the time this movie aired.
Michael Cochrane (Nicholas Ridley) appeared in two other BBC political dramas focussing on Prime Minister Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher MP: Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley (2008) and Margaret (2009).