 true story'. SAS Rogue Heroes, Steven Knight's new adaptation of Ben Macintyre's book, inverted this idea. 'Those events depicted, which seem most unbelievable, are mostly true,' it said. In other words, extraordinary people do improbable (and insane) things.As you'd expect from the man who brought us Peaky Blinders, the programme was uproarious, a punchy, bucking colt of a true Second World War story that grabbed the viewer (well, this one, anyway) by the lapels from the outset. A British convoy travelling through){kind=link}
SAS Rogue Heroes BBC1★★★★☆
Witty disclaimers made before historical TV dramas are fashionable these days. Anyone who saw The Great, Channel 4’s filthy, funny drama about Catherine the Great, will recall that it bills itself as “an (occasionally) true story”. SAS Rogue Heroes, Steven Knight’s new adaptation of Ben Macintyre’s book, inverted this idea. “Those events depicted, which seem most unbelievable, are mostly true,” it said. In other words, extraordinary people do improbable (and insane) things.
As you’d expect from the man who brought us Peaky Blinders, the programme was uproarious, a punchy, bucking colt of a true Second World War story that grabbed the viewer (well, this one, anyway) by the lapels from the outset. A British convoy travelling through
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