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SAS: The Shadow War
by The Independent / Aurra Studios
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Episode 6 The Last Resort
October 26, 2026 · 44 minIn June 1991, an SAS unit lay in wait in the village of Coagh, County Tyrone, after intelligence suggested an IRA team was preparing to assassinate an off-duty soldier. Within seconds of the gunmen arriving, three men were dead. In…
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Episode 5 Blue’s Story
October 19, 2026 · 36 minOn St Patrick’s Day 1978, a covert surveillance mission in rural Londonderry went catastrophically wrong. In episode five of SAS: The Shadow War, The Independent’s world affairs editor Sam Kiley meets ‘Blue’, a former 14 Intelligence…
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Episode 4 Cat and Mouse
October 12, 2026 · 38 minBy the mid-1980s, intelligence had become one of the British state’s most important weapons in Northern Ireland, with covert surveillance teams working the streets of Belfast knowing discovery could prove fatal. In episode four of SAS: The…
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Episode 3 Life in a Hedge
October 5, 2026 · 37 minFor days at a time, SAS operatives lay hidden in freezing hedgerows and fields, watching and waiting. Discovery could mean capture – or death. In this episode of SAS: The Shadow War, The Independent’s world affairs editor Sam Kiley enters…
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Episode 2 Heroes and Villains
October 5, 2026 · 49 minTwo SAS operations, eight years apart, produced radically different legacies. The first made the regiment national heroes. The second sparked decades of controversy. In 1980, the world watched as the SAS stormed the Iranian Embassy in…
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Episode 1 Tethered Goat
October 5, 2026 · 37 minFour miles south of Omagh, at the height of the Troubles, the SAS launched an ambush against an IRA unit suspected of carrying out a series of deadly attacks on soldiers. In the first episode of SAS: The Shadow War, The Independent’s world…
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SAS: The Shadow War - Trailer
September 28, 2026 · 2 minFor decades, the SAS has operated beyond public view, its missions shaped by secrecy and its reputation burnished by the rare moments when that secrecy has fallen away. In SAS: The Shadow War, The Independent’s international affairs editor…
About the show
For decades, the SAS has operated beyond public view, its missions shaped by secrecy and its reputation burnished by the rare moments when that secrecy has fallen away.
In SAS: The Shadow War, The Independent's world affairs editor Sam Kiley traces the regiment’s covert campaign against the IRA in Northern Ireland, from the surveillance operations and ambushes of the Troubles to the hard questions that still endure today. Along the way, the Iranian Embassy siege and a deadly operation in Gibraltar reveal how the SAS became both a celebrated and a contested force.
Drawing on rare and previously unheard first-hand accounts from former operatives and those who witnessed the conflict up close, this eight-part documentary series explores a war fought largely out of sight – and the legal battle now being waged over how its actions should be judged.
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