0:00:04 > 0:00:06MILITARY DRUMS
0:00:45 > 0:00:49'There are no shortcuts in the education of a Marine Commando.
0:00:49 > 0:00:54'Lesson three, survival, has to be learnt the hard way - in the field.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58'Forbidden - all contacts with a sparse Hebridean population.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00'Deprived of rations now for three days,
0:01:00 > 0:01:05'these gaunt men must live by what they can snare and kill.
0:01:05 > 0:01:07'They are candidates for an elite unit,
0:01:07 > 0:01:10'the Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre,
0:01:10 > 0:01:14'whose function is to behave extremely badly behind enemy lines.'
0:01:14 > 0:01:16Food for another couple of days.
0:01:19 > 0:01:20Many days of happy hunting.
0:01:26 > 0:01:27Ooh, hot work.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31'Western society is so unacquainted with real hunger
0:01:31 > 0:01:36'that its effects on men fitter than most Olympic athletes is fascinating.
0:01:36 > 0:01:37'What happens first?'
0:01:38 > 0:01:39Fatigue, generally.
0:01:40 > 0:01:42It's a lot more difficult to...
0:01:42 > 0:01:45to bound these distances to the snares, for a start.
0:01:45 > 0:01:49As you probably noticed, it took us a long time to get up here.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51It's very slow, one foot in front of the other,
0:01:51 > 0:01:54and that's only after three days.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57So although we think we're getting the goodness from the food,
0:01:57 > 0:02:00it's still taking its toll in energy.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04It's not as easy as it was to trudge these distances.
0:02:04 > 0:02:09But you've just got to take it slowly, give yourself more time.
0:02:10 > 0:02:14And hopefully, everything will be fine. But we can definitely feel it.
0:02:14 > 0:02:18Simple things like climbing over a fence now,
0:02:18 > 0:02:20you jump down the other side and you...
0:02:20 > 0:02:24stop for a couple of seconds to get your breath, and then trudge on.
0:02:24 > 0:02:28- So, that thing there was your first meal?
0:02:29 > 0:02:33- That and his little mate. We've lost the skin to his mate.
0:02:33 > 0:02:35- He was a tough hombre, that one.
0:02:35 > 0:02:39We had to cook it for a while. We boiled it for a hell of a long time.
0:02:39 > 0:02:44But surprisingly enough, although it didn't smell too healthy,
0:02:44 > 0:02:47probably because it'd been dead for a couple of days,
0:02:47 > 0:02:49the taste was all right. We got a stew out of it.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52We had to chew the meat a bit, but you enjoy it more that way.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55If you get a small bit, you can get in again before these two.
0:02:55 > 0:02:59It was all right, surprisingly. It doesn't taste...
0:02:59 > 0:03:00- Very rich meat.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03- Yeah. I've eaten things like snake and hedgehog before,
0:03:03 > 0:03:08so why not go for ferret? We ate that on Saturday.
0:03:08 > 0:03:10Saturday, we ate the ferret.
0:03:10 > 0:03:15Didn't half make the rabbit taste like steak on Sunday. It was lovely,
0:03:15 > 0:03:18because it was a fairly big rabbit we got, with stacks of meat on it.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21- Anything you're missing, particularly? Aside from the grub,
0:03:21 > 0:03:25which is the obvious thing. Have you got a craving for anything?
0:03:25 > 0:03:26- Really good cup of tea.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29- With sugar. - A really British cup of tea.
0:03:29 > 0:03:33With sugar and milk and digestive biscuits. Dunk them in.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36If you dunk them too long, the ends drop off.
0:03:36 > 0:03:41We could murder a cup of tea or a coffee, instead of this nettle tea.
0:03:41 > 0:03:42Nettle tea's all right,
0:03:42 > 0:03:46but the thistles tend to get stuck in the back of your throat.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51'Compared with some, Corporal Russ Craig has checked in
0:03:51 > 0:03:53'at the Hebrides Hilton, a sturdy sheep pen.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58'Clearly a house-proud man.'
0:03:59 > 0:04:03Just trying to make some rosehip syrup at the moment.
0:04:03 > 0:04:04I cut all the centres out.
0:04:04 > 0:04:08Going to use them as bait for birds or something, try and set up a trap.
0:04:08 > 0:04:11I'm trying to make a cup of tea out of rosehip syrup.
0:04:11 > 0:04:15- What have you missed most of all? - Most of all?
0:04:15 > 0:04:17- I mean, apart from grub.
0:04:17 > 0:04:19Is there anything you've had a craving for?
0:04:19 > 0:04:22- Yeah, Mars bars.
0:04:22 > 0:04:25I had a dream about the wife the other night. It was weird, it was.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29I was dreaming about the missus, and she was sat at home,
0:04:29 > 0:04:31watching telly with the two kids.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33And she was watching a Mars Bar advert.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36And now every time I close my eyes and think about food,
0:04:36 > 0:04:38I always think about Mars bars.
0:04:38 > 0:04:42It was weird, the missus was at home, watching a Mars bar advert.
0:04:42 > 0:04:46I couldn't believe it. It was weird.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51Andy keeps dreaming about Kentucky Fried Chicken,
0:04:51 > 0:04:55because he goes ashore all time and he's into Kentucky Fried Chicken.
0:04:55 > 0:04:56He keeps dreaming about that.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58That's his craving.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01'For most, however, even fantasy can't alleviate the horror
0:05:02 > 0:05:05'of what has all the makings of a truly last supper.'
0:05:05 > 0:05:08- We're not too sure about furry caterpillars.
0:05:08 > 0:05:11We've been told that if you singe the hairs off them,
0:05:11 > 0:05:12they are edible.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16But then again, we've been told that if you eat them,
0:05:16 > 0:05:17they are poisonous.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21So we're going to give it a miss. We'll probably just use it as bait.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25I think you'd turn to things like that as a last resort
0:05:25 > 0:05:27if there was absolutely nothing.
0:05:34 > 0:05:37'Caveman living appears to concentrate the mind.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40'Food is the be-all and end-all of conversation.'
0:05:45 > 0:05:47- The Hotpoint Mark 2 oven, this.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50- Whoa! Look at that!
0:05:55 > 0:06:00- I've been using peat on the fire, and obviously it's in large blocks.
0:06:00 > 0:06:04So I've been using a small hacksaw blade to cut the peat up,
0:06:04 > 0:06:06and it's getting that bad food-wise
0:06:06 > 0:06:09that I can't even cut the blocks of peat without thinking of gingerbread.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11Also in the morning, starting the fires,
0:06:11 > 0:06:14we slice up the wood to make chippings to get it going.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17And now I can't help thinking I'm cutting up bits of cheese!
0:06:17 > 0:06:19It's beyond a joke. Everything you look at is food.
0:06:22 > 0:06:26'By their fourth night in the open, and mercifully, it's a mild November,
0:06:26 > 0:06:29'the lack of food for some becomes a genuine predicament.'
0:06:31 > 0:06:34- Not the gear you were issued with.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37- No. Found it in the dustbin first day we got here.
0:06:37 > 0:06:39We got dropped off down the road
0:06:39 > 0:06:43and had a rummage through the dustbin and we found these clothes,
0:06:43 > 0:06:45this bag and a few other assortments
0:06:45 > 0:06:48that we'll hopefully use to cook on if we get anything.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50- Why have you changed into that?
0:06:50 > 0:06:52- Well, it's our third day now.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55We've had nothing to eat. We can't catch any game.
0:06:55 > 0:06:59This is a pretty poor area. There's no trees. That house is empty.
0:06:59 > 0:07:03We had a look the first night and the second night,
0:07:03 > 0:07:05and there's a push-bike in the shed.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08So I'll get the push-bike and have a ride to the farms,
0:07:08 > 0:07:09see if there's anything I can get,
0:07:09 > 0:07:13be it eggs, chickens, potatoes, anything. I'll just ride down there.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16- You're in civvies because you don't want to get caught.
0:07:16 > 0:07:17What if you are caught?
0:07:17 > 0:07:21- If I'm caught, I'll be off the course, simple as that.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24But it's initiative. You know, you're out here.
0:07:24 > 0:07:28You've got a set of laws to stick by. They're only a guideline.
0:07:28 > 0:07:32It's more or less do what you want, as long as you're not caught.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34- Good luck. - Cheers.
0:07:41 > 0:07:45'Russ Craig's expedition to "borrow" a bicycle may hardly be described
0:07:45 > 0:07:49'as a consummate demonstration of the commando's art of feline stealth.'
0:07:52 > 0:07:54DOOR BOLT RATTLES NOISILY
0:07:59 > 0:08:01LOUD CRASHING
0:08:11 > 0:08:13DOOR SLAMS
0:08:34 > 0:08:36'Since Craig came close to waking graveyards,
0:08:36 > 0:08:39'it's little wonder that the subsequent interrogation
0:08:39 > 0:08:42'is inspired by profound suspicion.'
0:08:44 > 0:08:45- Stick your tongue out.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47- Pardon?
0:08:47 > 0:08:51Well, I first fished today...eh, yesterday,
0:08:51 > 0:08:52and a rabbit today.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00- You caught your first rabbit? Are you sure you weren't given it?
0:09:00 > 0:09:01- I caught it today.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08- Take out the contents of your pockets and put them in there.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19- That's probably one of them that was in the bin,
0:09:19 > 0:09:21with all the rest of that stuff.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38- What was that you found?
0:09:38 > 0:09:41You found a piece of paper with some cake crumbs in it?
0:09:41 > 0:09:42- Yeah, what they did,
0:09:42 > 0:09:45they found all that stuff in the bin at the top of the road,
0:09:45 > 0:09:47so I can't prove where that came from.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49I think that's where they've got it from,
0:09:49 > 0:09:53he's got it in its paper - Co-Op.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56- Do you think they have managed to survive on
0:09:56 > 0:09:59just the turnip stew for four days?
0:09:59 > 0:10:03- They've had stuff that they found up there,
0:10:03 > 0:10:06they've had sugar, I know they've had tea.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09And there's some type of... whether they found powdered milk
0:10:09 > 0:10:13in there or not, but there was traces of it there.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt at the moment.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18But they're looking quite weak.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21'Not only weak, but disorientated, too.
0:10:21 > 0:10:25'The manuals call this "the dislocation of expectation",
0:10:25 > 0:10:29'and compound it with the irksome harassment of repeated searches.'
0:10:35 > 0:10:36- This is good.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39Put it over there.
0:10:48 > 0:10:49- Plenty of matches left?
0:10:49 > 0:10:51- Pardon?
0:10:51 > 0:10:53- Plenty of matches left?
0:10:53 > 0:10:54- Yeah.
0:11:16 > 0:11:19- There's the old cooking pot there, do you want to do it?
0:11:22 > 0:11:24You said you were cold?
0:11:24 > 0:11:25- Yeah.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28- You're not doing the hot stones thing that I told you.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45- Has anyone seen Costerly at all?
0:11:45 > 0:11:47- Costerly? No.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50Why, is he still missing?
0:11:50 > 0:11:51- No.
0:11:55 > 0:11:57It would be a good idea...
0:11:57 > 0:12:00It'd be a good idea if you can smoke some stuff
0:12:00 > 0:12:04to take with you towards the end, yeah.
0:12:04 > 0:12:05- Take with us?
0:12:06 > 0:12:07- To take with you.
0:12:07 > 0:12:08- Where are we going?
0:12:08 > 0:12:10- You might find out.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12- Right, we'll see you later on.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14- Have fun.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22'Have fun - the humour is wearing thin.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24'There's a nervous edge to the laughter.'
0:12:29 > 0:12:30THEY LAUGH
0:12:34 > 0:12:36- What are you looking for?
0:12:39 > 0:12:44'The problem is that no-one will tell them how long all this is going on.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47'It could be 10 more hours or 10 more days,
0:12:47 > 0:12:51'and they haven't got rid of their tiresome shadows yet.'
0:12:51 > 0:12:55- None of us have slept a whole night yet.
0:12:55 > 0:12:56- Stay awake.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59- You keep waking up with terrible cramps.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02We're all suffering from dizzy spells.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05Probably just lack of food.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09- It shouldn't be lack of food, because you've got enough now.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12- Lack of vitamins and sugar, salt and all those things.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15- Well, you'll find that there's enough natural salt,
0:13:15 > 0:13:16especially in the...um,
0:13:17 > 0:13:20some of the game you've got there, soon you'll be eating that anyway.
0:13:20 > 0:13:24It's just your body's now taking less salt than it normally does.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26- Yeah.
0:13:26 > 0:13:30- You'll probably find that, if you're not drinking enough liquids,
0:13:30 > 0:13:32and you're roasting stuff there,
0:13:32 > 0:13:33you always go for the stew
0:13:33 > 0:13:36and then there's your drink after that, and what have you.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39Have you put any of the wild herbs in your cooking?
0:13:39 > 0:13:41- We haven't found any wild herbs yet.
0:13:41 > 0:13:42- Nothing?
0:13:42 > 0:13:45- We don't really know what they look like.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47- There's also mint.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49You've got to walk for it.
0:13:49 > 0:13:53'A dissertation on the aromatic properties of British herbs
0:13:53 > 0:13:56'is, of course, precisely what you need when starving(!)'
0:13:56 > 0:13:58- Right, there it is there.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01- Oh, is that one?
0:14:01 > 0:14:05- All you've got to do is rub it in your hand and you can smell it, yeah?
0:14:08 > 0:14:11- It grows in boggy bits, is that the one?
0:14:11 > 0:14:15- No, it's on like a fairly firm stalk,
0:14:15 > 0:14:18it's not just in a little bit, it goes about that high.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22'Ignoring the cordon bleu lecture, they strike lucky with a hare,
0:14:22 > 0:14:24'served alfresco and consumed in a manner
0:14:24 > 0:14:28'reflecting much credit on their mothers' table training.'
0:15:02 > 0:15:04What do you reckon there then, now?
0:15:04 > 0:15:05Polythene on top of there?
0:15:07 > 0:15:10'Faces are beginning to reflect the strain.'
0:15:17 > 0:15:19- Is it what you expected?
0:15:19 > 0:15:21- Yeah.
0:15:21 > 0:15:24Yeah, it's not hard to go hungry, is it?
0:15:24 > 0:15:27But we've been a bit more fortunate,
0:15:27 > 0:15:29because they say it's the best area.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32It is if you use the woods in it.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34The game, there's stacks of rabbits around,
0:15:34 > 0:15:37but they're laughing at us - us three, anyway.
0:15:37 > 0:15:39We put snares out,
0:15:39 > 0:15:42and I've caught a couple, caught a few.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44But I met one of the guys from the other end,
0:15:44 > 0:15:46we went there for a yomp today,
0:15:46 > 0:15:50he was telling us they've caught quite a few.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53I mean, Digger was catching quite a few initially,
0:15:53 > 0:15:55but now I don't know, have you been over there today?
0:15:55 > 0:15:57- No, he's not catching them.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59- Yeah, catching nothing.
0:15:59 > 0:16:01It's living off tatties and sweets.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03- What's been the worst bit of it?
0:16:03 > 0:16:05Is it the hunger?
0:16:05 > 0:16:11- Yeah, I mean, I think any of us could stand being cold and wet,
0:16:11 > 0:16:13easy, no problem, just live with it.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16It's just going without the food.
0:16:16 > 0:16:20I mean, that'll give you carbohydrates and that,
0:16:20 > 0:16:22the old spuds and that,
0:16:23 > 0:16:27but it's just not as much food as you're used to.
0:16:27 > 0:16:30A lot of things you take for granted, you know, back at home,
0:16:30 > 0:16:32as you probably no doubt now,
0:16:32 > 0:16:35but you certainly realise what you do take for granted
0:16:35 > 0:16:36once you're here.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57- You haven't had that much?
0:17:03 > 0:17:07- You haven't even got yourself a hat or anything.
0:17:07 > 0:17:08You haven't what?
0:17:08 > 0:17:10- I haven't got that yet, no.
0:17:10 > 0:17:11- You haven't done that yet?
0:17:11 > 0:17:13Don't you think it might be a good idea?
0:17:13 > 0:17:14- Aye.
0:17:14 > 0:17:19- Let's see you getting yourselves a bit more cheery and a bit warmer.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30OK, let's have a look inside, eh?
0:17:30 > 0:17:32- Sure.
0:17:34 > 0:17:38- Did you put this up between you?
0:17:38 > 0:17:40You don't look too happy.
0:17:46 > 0:17:50- Where you've sited your bivvy, as I told you in the first place,
0:17:50 > 0:17:54you're going to get gale-force winds blowing through it,
0:17:54 > 0:17:58and if this wind picks up now, this won't last five minutes.
0:17:58 > 0:18:00It'll be away like a sail.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03You're fire's nothing compared to the others.
0:18:03 > 0:18:07People are now, because they've picked a decent location,
0:18:07 > 0:18:10and didn't just plonk on the side of a river like this,
0:18:10 > 0:18:12quite out in the open,
0:18:12 > 0:18:15they've managed to build ovens, they've got smokers...
0:18:16 > 0:18:18But what you seem to be doing to me
0:18:18 > 0:18:21is scratching around like three hens here.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23You've got to make a decision
0:18:23 > 0:18:25whether you're going to scratch around here forever
0:18:26 > 0:18:28or move about, move over within your area
0:18:29 > 0:18:31and see if you can find a better place.
0:18:31 > 0:18:35If this wind, as I say, picks up and what have you,
0:18:35 > 0:18:38in the middle of the night, this is going to start going.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41Probably now you've got a lot of turfs on the top here
0:18:41 > 0:18:43it's probably a little bit better,
0:18:43 > 0:18:47but it is the worst group, and you seem to be scratching.
0:18:50 > 0:18:54You're only at the beginning of it, OK?
0:18:54 > 0:18:57You've got a long way to go yet.
0:18:57 > 0:18:59If you're going to start getting worn down,
0:18:59 > 0:19:02as I can see, the looks of you, that you are,
0:19:02 > 0:19:04you ain't going to make it right to the very end.
0:19:06 > 0:19:07Yeah?
0:19:08 > 0:19:10'But the end is in sight.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12'Camp is to be struck tomorrow,
0:19:12 > 0:19:15'day seven of what had been planned as a ten-day exercise.'
0:19:15 > 0:19:17- Morning, Corporal Craig.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21You're living like kings now.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24'The management have deemed that a mild November
0:19:24 > 0:19:26'has made conditions too soft.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29'Goodwill is re-established by awarding each man
0:19:29 > 0:19:30'with a single boiled sweet.'
0:19:32 > 0:19:36- Corporal Craig, before I forget, just a little present to go on with.
0:19:36 > 0:19:37- Cheers!
0:19:37 > 0:19:40Can I have a cigarette instead, because I'm a smoker?
0:19:40 > 0:19:41LAUGHTER
0:19:41 > 0:19:43- Got enough smoke down here.
0:19:47 > 0:19:48- Cheers.
0:19:48 > 0:19:49It's too good, mate.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51I can't ask for much more, can I?
0:19:51 > 0:19:53The sight of a happy Matt Long.
0:19:53 > 0:19:55'They have yet, of course, to encounter
0:19:55 > 0:19:59'the snow and ice that is to be their ultimate fighting terrain,'
0:19:59 > 0:20:01'but even here, any man could have quit, had he wanted.'
0:20:01 > 0:20:04'Did that occur to Corporal Craig's group?'
0:20:04 > 0:20:08- Earlier we were, because we had heard about the other groups
0:20:08 > 0:20:11catching stacks of game and we wasn't catching sod all.
0:20:11 > 0:20:15The first three days I was ready for wrapping my hand in,
0:20:15 > 0:20:17throwing the towel in. I don't know what these two felt.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20I was threaders. We weren't catching anything and I didn't see
0:20:21 > 0:20:24how we could stand another nine days of it. I was really fed up.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27- I think if it had carried on for a few more days,
0:20:27 > 0:20:30I would probably have thought about wrapping my hand in.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33But as soon as we got the vegetables, things changed.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36The morale did pick up a bit.
0:20:36 > 0:20:41- Because on Friday, you saw the demonstrations.
0:20:41 > 0:20:47It looks very good because you see all the meat and all the vegetables
0:20:47 > 0:20:49and all things you can eat.
0:20:49 > 0:20:56After two days, when you haven't caught anything, then it is boring.
0:20:58 > 0:21:03'With no enemy to liven things up, what do they do to combat tedium?'
0:21:03 > 0:21:06A big advantage of this week is that I've had a lot of time
0:21:06 > 0:21:09to think about my girlfriend.
0:21:09 > 0:21:14That was very nice because the other weeks you were working so hard
0:21:14 > 0:21:19that there is nearly no time left to think about your girlfriend.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21This was a good time.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24- I tried not doing that because when I thought of my missus
0:21:24 > 0:21:25it made me get depressed.
0:21:26 > 0:21:27But, when I'd be thinking about...
0:21:27 > 0:21:29No, I didn't mean it like that!
0:21:32 > 0:21:36When I was thinking about the work we had to do and the food to get
0:21:36 > 0:21:38where we were going to go and what we were doing next
0:21:38 > 0:21:41and getting the fire going, I was busy, my mind was occupied
0:21:42 > 0:21:45and it wasn't so bad. But when I stopped to think about my family,
0:21:45 > 0:21:48mother and father, brothers and sisters, my wife and kids,
0:21:48 > 0:21:49I'd feel depressed and think,
0:21:49 > 0:21:52"Shit, let's get out of this place. I've had enough. Why am I here?
0:21:52 > 0:21:55"I don't have to be, I'm a volunteer. I must be puddled."
0:21:55 > 0:21:57But when I was thinking of other things, I was all right.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00As soon as I thought about home, I was depressed as hell.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03I stopped thinking about it. I try not to think about it.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09- What have you learnt?
0:22:09 > 0:22:11- How hard it is to survive, keep going.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16You think it's going to be a lot easier than it really is.
0:22:16 > 0:22:20- Specifically, what have your difficulties been?
0:22:20 > 0:22:21- Tiredness, I think.
0:22:21 > 0:22:27Going with the simplest chores, after a while, it gets hard work.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31My hat keeps on falling off.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Apart from that, it's not too bad.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39- How are you? - Fine. Yesterday we got two rabbits.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42- He's come to show us his slippers.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44- Slippers?
0:22:44 > 0:22:46Oh, yes, I like that.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49Furry side inwards.
0:22:49 > 0:22:53Tails on the front instead of the back.
0:22:55 > 0:22:56Off you go then.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58- What do you think of my sheep ticks?
0:22:58 > 0:23:01- Have you got sheep ticks? - Have I!
0:23:01 > 0:23:03- Let's have a look.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05- I've just had mine in-between my fingers.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08- You keep them where you want.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10- I've found them every day up to yesterday...
0:23:10 > 0:23:12- They're around your wrists.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15I thought you had them before you came out, Digger.
0:23:15 > 0:23:16- Like the crabs.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18- Like the crabs!
0:23:18 > 0:23:24- Tomorrow, Digger, I want you and your band of merry men
0:23:24 > 0:23:27to meet the transport there at five past eight.
0:23:27 > 0:23:28- Are you happy? - Yes.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31- Good. You'll survive until tomorrow?
0:23:31 > 0:23:33- We've got enough spuds.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35- Good.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41- Before I forget. I've got something for you.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43- No, not a Mars bar.
0:23:43 > 0:23:44- A Picnic?
0:23:44 > 0:23:46- What do you want? Galaxy, Mars bar or Picnic?
0:23:46 > 0:23:48- Galaxy. - Marathon.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51- There's a few there. There's another one.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56You are supposed to hand them out.
0:23:56 > 0:23:58- No, we don't have to fight over the colours.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02- What are you gonna do, boil 'em?
0:24:02 > 0:24:03- Smoke it.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05- You can make tea. You can make tea out of it.
0:24:05 > 0:24:07- I might suck it.
0:24:07 > 0:24:08- Suck it and see.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10- They are different from rosehips.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15- Right, we'll see you later.
0:24:15 > 0:24:16- Don't be late. - Five past.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19I'll set the alarm.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22My bladder will crack me up by then.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33- A good job you left it intact.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36You will be down from this house,
0:24:36 > 0:24:40around there at ten past eight tomorrow morning to be picked up.
0:24:40 > 0:24:44Right? That's where I want you at ten past eight tomorrow morning.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46- You rub that, don't you?
0:24:46 > 0:24:47- That's up to you.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50Make sure this lot is taken down and put back where you got it.
0:24:50 > 0:24:54I want the whole area cleared of all this rubbish.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57I don't want to see you've been here at all.
0:24:57 > 0:25:01I'll be around to check it after you've gone. OK, any questions?
0:25:01 > 0:25:02- Is Scott McLean about?
0:25:02 > 0:25:03- No, what's up?
0:25:03 > 0:25:05- He promised me a sweet next time he comes.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07- I've got them for you.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10- Have you got one, George? Super!
0:25:10 > 0:25:12- You've been looking forward to this?
0:25:12 > 0:25:14- I've been waiting for my sweet.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16- That's one for each.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19- Yeah, I'll give Jonno his.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21- That's it. No questions, anyone?
0:25:21 > 0:25:22Happy with what you've got to do?
0:25:22 > 0:25:24- Yeah, eight o'clock tomorrow.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26- Eight o'clock, completely cleared.
0:25:26 > 0:25:29- OK, no probs. I'll see you later then.
0:25:32 > 0:25:34- It would be an invidious question to ask you
0:25:34 > 0:25:36whether you're pleased with that news?
0:25:37 > 0:25:40- I like it here. - Super.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46- How have you been getting on? What have you learnt?
0:25:48 > 0:25:52- We had a talking-to the other day.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56We've been existing as opposed to living, really.
0:25:58 > 0:26:00- You see what I mean? - Yeah.
0:26:00 > 0:26:02- We were getting by all right.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05Obviously they wanted the Rolls Royce so we done the stove.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08We actually caught a rabbit. Have you seen them?
0:26:08 > 0:26:10- Yeah, I saw them. You smoked them?
0:26:10 > 0:26:12- Yeah. He almost got ate.
0:26:12 > 0:26:16We thought we better save it for a rainy day.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19- You've worked it out right?
0:26:19 > 0:26:22- Yeah, but there's more.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29- What have you learnt this week?
0:26:29 > 0:26:33- Well, learnt to snare.
0:26:33 > 0:26:37You know, catching game and that. Er...
0:26:37 > 0:26:41I don't know. It's the little things you find out about yourself.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44You know, you either hack it or you don't.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47I've had no problems, it's been OK.
0:26:47 > 0:26:51- Little things you've found out about yourself, such as?
0:26:51 > 0:26:53- Er, whether you want to pass the course or not.
0:26:53 > 0:26:58I mean, I want to pass the course so you put up with this. You get bored.
0:26:58 > 0:27:02You don't think you get bored but you do.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04It is a bit boring.
0:27:04 > 0:27:08- One of the people in the other groups said on the third day
0:27:08 > 0:27:12they thought very seriously about wrapping their hand in.
0:27:12 > 0:27:13Did that cross your mind?
0:27:13 > 0:27:16- No. I've never thought about wrapping.
0:27:16 > 0:27:20I just look at this as part of it.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22I know there's a lot more at the end of the tunnel.
0:27:22 > 0:27:27There's a lot more good things. You're bound to get some bad.
0:27:27 > 0:27:31I mean, it wouldn't be worth doing if it was easy, really.
0:27:31 > 0:27:32There's got to be a challenge to it.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42'They think it's over, but it's not.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44'As the transport arrives to collect them,
0:27:44 > 0:27:48'they're to discover that their end-of-term euphoria is premature.'
0:28:03 > 0:28:05'What should have been a welcome sight
0:28:05 > 0:28:09'is transformed into something almost sinister.'
0:28:38 > 0:28:42- From now on, you'll be known by these numbers.
0:28:44 > 0:28:49'Abruptly, they are deprived of their names and become mere ciphers.'
0:29:25 > 0:29:28- From now on, you'll be known by these numbers only.
0:29:43 > 0:29:48'Even the right of expectation has been snatched away from them again,
0:29:48 > 0:29:51'just as if they'd been caught from behind enemy lines.
0:29:51 > 0:29:53'It increases their apprehension.'
0:30:03 > 0:30:07- Hands on the side of the wagon.
0:30:15 > 0:30:17- You'll now be given a number,
0:30:17 > 0:30:20you'll be known by that number from now on.
0:30:28 > 0:30:31Keep quiet.
0:30:47 > 0:30:49Squeeze right up.
0:31:21 > 0:31:24'There are certain aspects of the training, as well as the operations
0:31:24 > 0:31:29'of Britain's Special Forces Units, which may not be publicised.
0:31:29 > 0:31:31'We were not permitted to film what happened next.
0:31:31 > 0:31:35'A decision determined by the Official Secrets Act.
0:31:35 > 0:31:39'Next week, on the mainland, they are governed by no such constraints.'
0:31:40 > 0:31:44'There is much more a behind the lines fighter has yet to learn.'