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Airdate: SAS: Who Dares Wins

SBS screens a UK series that puts 30 men through a simulation of the SAS selection process.

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On Monday SBS begins a 5-Part series SAS: Who Dares Wins, a Channel 4 series that puts 30 men through a simulation of the SAS selection process.

Selection for the SAS has never been filmed but this series will take you closer than ever before. An elite group of ex-Special Forces soldiers puts 30 physically fit civilians through an extraordinary series of physical and psychological tests, each taken from the real SAS entrance process.

Physical fitness is just the start, the true test is one of character. The recruits are cut off from the outside world to eat, sleep and train together. Over eight days they are subjected to intense psychological profiling, sleep deprivation, endurance tests and interrogation.

But as the recruits defences are stripped away, so too are our preconceptions about the qualities needed to be a Special Forces soldier. Most will reach breaking point and withdraw, but which recruits will be among the few who make it to the end?

Episode One:
The recruits arrive at the isolated barracks in Wales and are introduced to their instructors. The recruits’ first task is an unexpected one: they are told to write an essay about themselves. Once they’ve done it, they’re immediately off on a 12 kilometre combat fitness test.

Monday, 9 November at 8.30pm on SBS.

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