22 Special Air Service Operator | Robin Horsfall | Ep. 237

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History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government

4.7 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Born in Farnham, Surrey, UK. Following a divorce from his birth father, his mother Hazel married his step-father, who adopted him and gave him the name Horsfall. A broken family life adversely affected his education, so he left school in 1972 at the age of fifteen and joined the army as a boy soldier. Despite a long period of isolation and bullying by his peers, he became a full member of the Parachute Regiment in 1974 and served three tours of Northern Ireland. In 1978 he volunteered for SAS selection and passed on his second attempt in March 1979. He went on to qualify as a Paramedic and Sniper. He was a member of the SAS counter terrorist team that assaulted the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980, helping to rescue the nineteen hostages who had been held for six days.
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1:00.0	Hello everybody, Welcome to episode 237 of the team house. I'm Dave Park. could not be here tonight. We welcome our guest, former two para and 22 SAS operator
1:17.4	Robin Horsefall. Robin thanks for being with us tonight.
1:22.4	Great to be here, Dave. Great to be here, Dave.
1:23.4	Great to be here.
1:24.2	Yeah, and we know it's late.
1:26.6	So we will try and turn and burn on this
1:31.7	so you don't step until 4 a.m. your time. So Robin, you know, so Robin
1:38.6	amongst other books, you know, the book that I read was running scared which is about your childhood
1:45.1	about your time in the para the SAS you know a lot of fascinating things
1:50.3	one of the things we always like to ask our guests is about their origin story and you cover quite
1:56.1	a bit of that in your book.
1:57.1	Can you tell us a little bit about your childhood, your exposure to the military and
2:01.5	then what eventually led you to the military?
2:05.2	Yeah, the book's actually called Fighting Scared.
2:07.8	Oh, I'm saying, did I say Riding Scared? I'm sorry.
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