Rogue Heroes on SBS – From the creators of Peaky Blinders, Rogue Heroes is a dramatised account of how the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, the SAS, was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of WWII.
The series centres on David Stirling, an eccentric young officer, who is hospitalised after a training exercise gone wrong. Convinced that traditional commando units do not work, Stirling creates a radical plan that flies in the face of all accepted rules of modern warfare.
Portraying David Stirling is actor Connor Swindells, best known for his role as Adam Groff in Sex Education and for drama series Vigil. He will be joined by Skins actor Jack O’Connell as Paddy Mayne, Game of Thrones’ Alfie Allen as Jock Lewes, The Wire’s Dominic West as Lieutenant Colonel Wrangel Clarke and Atomic Blonde star Sofia Boutella as Eve.
Series One, Episode Five:
Captain Bergé and his men arrive in the desert to train with the SAS at their isolated fort. His Free French forces include Lieutenant Augustin Jordan and Aspirant André Zirnheld, Corporal Herbert Brückner and Sergeant Walter Essner (both German and invaluable at roadblocks) and Marc Halévy, a Jewish soldier whose family, including his two children, were taken to the Death camps.
Stirling has chosen a less-than-enthusiastic Paddy Mayne to stay behind and train the French soldiers while he takes a team of men on a raid to Benghazi two hundred miles behind enemy lines.
Along the way he takes with them a rather special guest – a certain Randolph Churchill. Stirling is keen to impress the Prime Minister’s son and show him exactly what the SAS are made from.
Rogue Heroes – New Episode – Wednesday, 3 May at 9.30pm on SBS and SBS on Demand (6 Parts)
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