About this season
Documentary series filmed over 12 months and featuring unparalleled access to the elite Parachute Regiment following the process by which new recruits are turned into elite soldiers trained to kill.
Episodes (3)
1. What Does It Take To Become A Para?
Aired 10 January 2019
41 recruits start training at Catterick barracks.
2. Episode 2
Aired 17 January 2019
Only 27 of the original 40 recruits - all known as ‘Joe’ to remove their civilian identities - remain as the platoon reaches a third of the way through its training course.
3. Episode 3
Aired 24 January 2019
The third and final episode provides a vivid insight into how Paras need to be ready to fight at all times, their perspectives on being first into conflict - and how they face up to the prospect of death either during a battle, or in making dangerous parachute jumps. It also includes the stories of the recruits trying their hardest to get in.