{"id":24480,"date":"2022-10-25T01:01:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T23:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1727079"},"modified":"2022-10-25T01:47:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T23:47:34","slug":"alfie-allen-connor-swindells-and-jack-oconnell-feature-on-this-weeks-radio-times-cover","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/alfie-allen-connor-swindells-and-jack-oconnell-feature-on-this-weeks-radio-times-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfie Allen, Connor Swindells and Jack O\u2019Connell feature on this week\u2019s Radio Times cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Laura Rutkowski\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 25 October 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The founders of the SAS knew all about the power of making a myth, as the historian Ben Macintyre tells us in this issue of Radio Times magazine<\/strong>. As does Steven Knight, who created a myth all of his own when he conceived the hit BBC drama Peaky Blinders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now Knight had made a new drama, SAS Rogue Heroes<\/a>, based on Macintyre\u2019s book of the same name<\/a>, that tells the story of the birth of Britain\u2019s secret military regiment. A bunch of misfits and eccentrics, the men who founded the SAS knew they were looking for the unconventional when they appealed for recruits.<\/p>\n

But they also knew they were looking for the exceptional: men who thought, fought and behaved differently from the military mainstream.<\/p>\n

Macintyre wrote his book after being granted access to the SAS\u2019s archive. In Knight\u2019s hands, fact blends into fiction, as you\u2019d expect from a drama. But at its heart, there is a real story to be told.<\/p>\n

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Also in this week\u2019s Radio Times:<\/strong><\/h2>\n