Ant Middleton

Published: Jan. 18, 2020, 1:11 p.m.

b"Aasmah Mir and Suzy Klein are joined by former Special Forces sniper, Ant Middleton, now star of Channel 4\\u2019s SAS: Who Dares Wins, where ex-Special Forces soldiers put civilian recruits through their paces, SAS style. \\nAndrew Garrido was desperate to play the piano. He couldn't afford lessons, but undeterred, he made a keyboard out of paper and taught himself and is now studying at the Guildhall School of Music.\\nJane Couch took part in unregulated boxing matches for years \\u2013 sometimes against men - before taking the British Boxing Board of Control to court in 1998 and winning, becoming the first British licensed female boxer.\\nListener Ellie Somme grew up with stories of her father\\u2019s work in the Norwegian resistance during the Second World War, but it wasn\\u2019t until he died that she discovered an archive of secret papers and realised the extent of his historical importance to the resistance movement. \\nThe inheritance tracks of Kwame Kwei-Armah, Artistic Director of the Young Vic, who chooses Sugar Bum Bum by Lord Kitchener and What\\u2019s Going On by Marvin Gaye.\\nAnd a listener thanks someone they were unable to thank at the time.\\n\\nProducer: Annette Wells\\nEditor: Eleanor Garland"