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Radio 2,4 mins

'We were the sweepings of the public schools and the prisons' Ben MacIntyre on the founding of the SAS during World War 2

Dermot O'Leary

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Ben MacIntyre chats to Dermot about David Stirling founding the SAS whilst recovering from a failed parachute jump during the Second World War.

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