![]() ![]() ![]() For the first time, the SAS has agreed to open up its archive and allow Ben Macintyre to reveal the true. The Special Air Service is the world's most famous combat unit, with the motto 'Who Dares Wins', but the story of how it came into existence has been, until now, a closely guarded secret. If Swindells feels a touch green to lead the regiment, O’Connell and Allen – both actors with a pleasing madness in their eyes – bring a roguish intensity. BBC Two - SAS: Rogue Warriors, Series 1, Episode 1. The SAS? “Sounds like a branch of the f***ing Post Office,” comes Paddy’s earthy verdict. ![]() Together, they will found the SAS, via a series of alcohol-fuelled shenanigans. It’s 1941, Egypt, and this is the story of three men: David Stirling ( Sex Education’s Connor Swindells), a toff burdened with horrific levels of self-confidence (or, in the words of his commanding officer, a “drunken, insubordinate malcontent”), Jock Lewes ( Game of Thrones’s Alfie Allen), a “mad martinet”, and Paddy Mayne ( Starred Up’s Jack O’Connell), an Irishman with a reckless propensity for chaos. In point of fact, SAS Rogue Heroes is something of a prestige drama – albeit one imbued with a streak of deep tackiness that befits its title. The BBC’s new Sunday night thriller – SAS Rogue Heroes, based on the book by prolific popular historian Ben Macintyre – is saddled with a name so naff that it conjures images either of video game stealth missions or Ant Middleton dangling celebrities off cliffs by their toenails. Never judge a book by its cover, they say, and perhaps the same is true for TV. ![]()
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