Selection for the SAS is one of the world's toughest job interviews and physical fitness is only the starting point. What's really being tested is psychological resilience and character as candidates undergo sleep deprivation, interrogation and a series of increasingly complex mind games. In this programme, five ex-special forces soldiers re-create tasks from the SAS's secret selection process, putting 30 civilian men through the ultimate test of their physical and - more importantly - their psychological resilience.
From the start, the recruits face a series of extreme, high-pressure tasks, including jumping from a moving helicopter into a lake and crawling across a vast canyon on a tightrope
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s03e02Weakness2018-01-1421:00⌄
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Weakness
s03e02 ·
2018-01-14 ·
21:00
The recruits must abseil 200 feet off a dam and climb a mountain in blistering heat with 40lbs on their backs
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s03e03Brotherhood2018-01-2121:00⌄
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Brotherhood
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2018-01-21 ·
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The recruits race each other across sand dunes in the Sahara and must cross a valley at night while avoiding hunter teams who are tracking them with dogs
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s03e04Betrayal2018-01-2821:00⌄
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2018-01-28 ·
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The recruits must dive 10 metres into a reservoir - backwards, and blindfolded. And then they're captured and intensely interrogated in an extreme test of mental resilience, trust and moral judgement.
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s03e05Survival2018-02-0421:00⌄
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Survival
s03e05 ·
2018-02-04 ·
21:00
Eighteen recruits down, seven to go... and it's the most demanding final phase the instructors have ever designed. Some recruits have to give up, others are culled. Will any of them pass the course?
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