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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.
Seasons
Episode 1
Fear
45m
Twenty recruits prepare to enter `Jungle Hell', the toughest phase of SAS selection. First they are tasked with traversing the 'trainasium', suspended 50 feet above the ground. Then they must complete a 200-foot abseil headlong into a waterfall.
Episode 2
Mindset
45m
The recruits take part in extreme hand-to-hand combat. A breach of camp discipline leads to a 'beasting'. And a recruit gets stranded up a huge waterfall.
Episode 3
Composure
45m
In the Vietnamese jungle, the group are tasked with a 200-foot abseil into a dark bat-infested cave. In a bustling market, the recruits must take down an armed gunman in a crowd of civilians. And then they take on each other in a game of murderball.
Episode 4
Leadership
45m
The remaining 11 recruits face a hostage rescue mission hoping to spring two abducted recruits. The second challenge is a punishing head-to-head team ammunition supply race in the jungle.
Episode 5
Survival
45m
The recruits' will to survive is severely tested with an extraction task used in the Vietnam War. Then the recruits must make it through a survival task that requires navigating through the jungle while being pursued by hunters.
Episode 6Latest episode
Interrogation
45m
The seven remaining recruits are ambushed by a hunter force team behind enemy lines. Handed over to interrogators for questioning, the recruits must endure psychological and physical punishments designed to break their will and force a confession.
