Inside the Royal Marines

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🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The Royal Marines are the UK's Commando Force and the Royal Navy's own amphibious troops. The Commandos have become a byword for elite raiding skills and cutting-edge military operations. They are globally renowned, yet shrouded in mystery.

Former Royal Marine Monty Halls joins Dan to shed light on the modern vanguard of a legendary unit, the descendants of the misfits and eccentrics who were so effective and feared in WW2 that Hitler famously ordered them to be shot on sight. They reveal the history behind the green beret, the real stories of extraordinary individuals and what it means to patrol the high seas and police coastlines around the globe.

Produced by Hannah Ward

Mixed and Mastered by Seyi Adaobi

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History here. I've got the brilliant, brilliant communicator,
0:04.9	TV presenter and writer Monty Halls on the podcast today. We're talking about his beloved
0:11.7	role, Marines. He is a formal role-moreign. He measures them in a very particular time during
0:16.8	the 350 years of existence of the role-moreign, where no shots were fired in anger. And perhaps that's
0:22.4	why he's looked for adventure, non-stop, since leaving the forces. He goes on expeditions, he makes
0:28.8	TV shows, he writes great books, and his most recent book is on the history of the role-moreign,
0:33.0	and on commandos in particular. Fascinating opportunity to look at one of the world's most
0:37.7	professional military organisations. If you want to watch numerous documentaries, in which the
0:43.2	role-moreign's feature be the documentary on detail, or special forces operations in the channel
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1:18.3	fantastic podcasts. So here we are, which brings us to the Vibrillin multi-halls. Enjoy.
1:33.5	Monty, thanks for coming on the show. No worries, my pleasure. Thanks for the invitation.
1:38.1	I had to get you on because a veteran of so many of the epic, epic role-moreign
1:43.4	actions that you write about so peacefully in this book. Oh, that's very kind, Dan.
1:47.9	It's very magnanimous because I gave a talk on the book last night to a group of
1:51.4	raw Marines. And I said, it's funny, if it was describing my career, it'd be more of a pamphlet
1:56.4	than a book, I think. It'd be more of a leaflet than a book.
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