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Blown Up Shot Stabbed | SO19 Podcast #66

Posted on 3 March 202112 May 2021 by Chris Thrall

Helen Barnett features in the ‘Blown Up, Shot, Stabbed S019 podcast. Here she chats with Chris Thrall to tell us what life was like at the frontline of British Policing.

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Blown Up Shot Stabbed | SO19

Helen Barnett and was authorised to shoot to kill. She has been blown up by the IRA, shot and stabbed. Helen was the first mother to join the Met Police’s Armed Response Unit.

Transcript from ‘Blown Up, Shot, Stabbed SO19’ podcast

Chris and Helen

C – Helen, how are you?

H – Hi Chris, I’m very well thanks how are you?

C – Yes, I’m okay, which part of the world are you in?

H – I’m in the Cotswold, I’m really lucky, it’s lovely and it’s been a lovely day as well, really sunny.

C – A beautiful part of the country. I did a 24 hour race in the Cotswolds. It’s one of those places where you hear Cotswolds and my mind starts thinking hang on are we talking like Lake District or something. It’s not actually far from the South West.

H – Yeah, it’s quite central isn’t it. It wasn’t around Broadway Tower was it?

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Surviving HELL The Chennai Six | Podcast #67

Posted on 3 March 202112 May 2021 by Chris Thrall

Surviving hell as one of The Chennai six, Nick tells his story of being arrested and imprisoned in India. Nick wasn’t just innocent of any crime, there was no crime.

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Surviving HELL The Chennai Six

Arrested and imprisoned in India as one of the ‘Chennai Six’, Nick wasn’t just innocent of any crime, there was no crime. Stationed on an anti-piracy ship to protect vessels against Somali pirates, the six were arrested and falsely charged with intruding in Indian waters and the possession of illegal weapons. Nick lost four years of his life trapped in a legal nightmare in India, thousands of miles from home and his family, spending the bulk of his time in appalling conditions at Chennai prison with extremely limited contact to the outside world. Despite this, Nick refused to buckle and now he tells his full story of endurance and survival for the very first time.

Transcript from ‘Surviving HELL The Chennai Six’ podcast

Chris and Nick

C – Nick how are you brother?

N – I’m good thank you very much.

C – You’ve been through a lot.

N – Yes, you could say that.

C – On the bright side you’ve got a book coming out.

N – I do yes and I’m trying to promote it at best as I can. Hopefully during lockdown people can potentially read and take something worth of value from the book, especially when I’m talking about isolation. People may say you were in a prison and I’m at home. For people with mental health problems they feel they are a prison in their own home. I want to shed light on what my isolation was like and the stuff I had available, people can then think well I’m not in a prison and look at the stuff they have at their disposal.

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SAS Battle For Goose Green | Special Air Service | Nigel Ely

Posted on 2 March 202119 December 2025 by Chris Thrall

Army Commando Joins Special Boat Service | #68

Posted on 2 March 202112 May 2021 by Chris Thrall

Army Commando Joins Special Boat Service, features Dean who took part in some of the most daring and dangerous operations in recent times.

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Army Commando Joins Special Boat Service

Dean joined the Britain’s elite Special Boat Service (SBS) and took part of some of the most daring and dangerous operations in recent times. But then, following a horrific parachuting accident, Dean’s dream career was cut short, and he was put to its toughest test.

Transcript from ‘Army Commando Joins Special Boat Service’ podcast

Chris and Dean

C – Dean how are you brother?

D – I’m alright yourself?

C – Yes, I can’t complain. I’ve been in the garden for the last half hour, and my God I’m not one of these people who says that it’s too hot because it can never be too hot. Bloody hell it’s hot.

D – I’m in Aberdeen and it’s over twenty five degrees here, people are spontaneously combusting in Scotland.

C – Are they still blue?

D – Yeah, but they’ve gone a little bit white now.

C – Massive thanks for joining us mate, especially at such short notice. It’s all kicking off for you now then with your book released.

D – Yeah they hardback was released in October, and yesterday the paperback was released and we’re supposed to be out and about promoting it, but because of the current situation, I haven’t been able to do that and attend literacy festivals and other events that we had scheduled. So it’s all had to be via social media.

C – Well I don’t think that’s a bad thing to be honest.

D – Right, I think there’s been a lot of positives on this period. I don’t believe in the phrase we’re all in the same boat, because we’ve all got different boats and people in all sorts of different situations…

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1 Para In Iraq | Steve Mathews | SFSG | #69

Posted on 1 March 202114 May 2021 by Chris Thrall

Steve Mathews fought with 1 Para in Iraq and went on to serve with the Special Forces Support Group. We learn from Steve all about the airborne brigade and it’s parachute course, plus his experience working alongside our Special Air Service and Special Boat Service.

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1 Para In Iraq | Steve Mathews | SFSG

Steve Mathews fought with 1 Para in Iraq and went on to serve with the Special Forces Support Group. Steve explains all about the airborne brigade, the death of the military policeman at at Majar al-Kabir, how 1 Para almost jumped into battle, how the parachute course is run and his current work as a civilian security contractor in Iraq. We discuss the parachute course at Brize Norton including the skyvan and the old balloon jump, and what it like to work alongside the Special Air Force (SAS) and Special Boat Service (SBS) and training, tactics and weapons.

Transcript from ‘1 Para In Iraq | Steve Mathews | SFSG’ podcast

Chris and Steve

C – Steve how are you brother?

S – I’m good thank you how are you?

C – I’m very well mate, thank you for asking. You’re in Iraq as we speak?

S – Yeah, currently on lockdown in Baghdad, Iraq yeah.

C – What position are you holding in there?

S – I’m basically working for a private security company. Part of the regional management team. So we basically oversee all the projects in our region and provide support for those projects.

C – If we go back to the beginning, it was 1 Para you were in?

S – Yeah, so I left school in the year 2000, always wanted to join the military, I had three other family members in the parachute regiment at the time, so my allegiance was to the parachute regiment. I was too young to join as an adult entry, so my only option was to go to the army foundation college in Harrogate…

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Stolen Valor Exposed | The Truth Behind Walter Mitty #70

Posted on 1 March 202114 May 2021 by Chris Thrall

Stolen valor exposed, sees Chris chatting with Ben regarding the truth behind eteran impersonation.

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Stolen Valor Exposed The Truth Behind Walter Mitty

My most heroic guest to date helps me explore the truth behind veteran impersonation aka Water Mitty or Stolen Valor (valour – UK spelling)

Transcript snippet from ‘Stolen Valor Exposed | The Truth Behind Walter Mitty’ podcast

Chris and Ben

C – Ben, how are you brother?

B – I’m doing good how are you?

C – Running out of clever replies, that probably aren’t really that clever.

B – When someone asks me this at work or whatever my usual reply when someone asks me how are you? I answer loving life. No matter what type of day it is, it’s positive affirmation. Sometimes good is just as sufficient, but I think if you say that enough times it gets contagious and other people start to say it whether they mean it or not.

C – I don’t mean to be rude to my guests but they’ve got to sort out the way they fricking speak man. All this “I’m good”. This is England, we’re British and we’re very proud about that. We’re not nationalistic but we’re proud not to have to copy other countries. People can speak how they want, of course they can but I do think though. I think people who are easily swayed with their language just start saying what other people say. You know like this ‘passed’ thing instead of died. They use ‘passed’. I personally think there’s a lot to dissect there…

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Royal Marines Mountain Leader (ML) | RSM Baz Gray | #71

Posted on 1 March 202114 May 2021 by Chris Thrall

Royal Marines Mountain Leader (ML) features RSM Baz Grey, whom served with the elite Mountain & Artic Warfare Cadre. Baz served as both mountain leader (ML) and as a course instructor.

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Royal Marines Mountain Leader (ML) RSM Baz Gray

Regimental Sergeant Major Baz Gray served with the Royal Marines’ elite Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre as both a mountain leader (ML) and course instructor. A trained sniper, Baz has served on operations in several conflicts, including Afghanistan and in recent years, he has skied solo and unsupported to the South Pole in Antarctica. Tomorrow, Baz will attempt to run EIGHTY MILES NONSTOP to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the formation of the COMMANDOS and to raise funds for the Royal Marines Charity. (Links below). This podcast features a cameo by Jason ‘Foxy’ Fox Special Boat Service (SBS) from the TV series SAS ‘Who Dares Wins’

Transcript snippet from ‘Royal Marines Mountain Leader’ podcast

Chris and Baz

C – Baz how are you brother?

B – Really well Chris, great to see you. I haven’t seen you in quite a while with the stuff going on, so it’s great to see your face mate.

C – Yes mate, and yours too. How are you feeling about tomorrow.

B – I’m ready, I’m a bit like you mate, I sort of decided to do this quite late, but fortunately I look after myself and do quite a lot of running anyway. My escape tends to be out on the moors near where I live, so I’ve really knuckled down and focused on doing this run in the last couple of weeks properly. It’s probably not the sort of time you should be giving yourself into an eighty mile run but…

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Ginger Bucks Matter | Martin Maloney Eddie Durkan | #72

Posted on 1 March 202114 May 2021 by Chris Thrall

The Ginger Bucks Matter podcast, features star of The TV show Vikings, Martin Maloney, aka Eddie Durkan and host, Chris Thrall.

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Ginger Bucks Matter

Join me and Martin Maloney, aka Eddie Durkan from the box-office smash Hardy Bucks and star of the hit TV series Vikings, as we discuss utterly totally massively riveting damn fine good stuff! “Hardy Bucks was created in 2007 when Chris Tordoff (Viper Higgins) filmed Martin Maloney (Eddie Durkin) and Owen Colgan (Buzz McDonnell) for a college project. After sitting on the footage for a year, Tordoff uploaded the shorts to YouTube. The show’s popularity eventually got it commissioned by RTE who took editorial control of the show. Starring Martin Maloney as Eddie Durkan, Chris Tordoff as ‘The Viper’.

It is written by and produced by Mike Cockayne, Hardy Bucks features Peter Cassidy, Owen Colgan and Tom Kilgallon, plus a cast of extras from Swinford and beyond. The Hardy Bucks Movie was released by Universal Pictures in Feb 2013, achieving Box Office No 1 on its opening weekend and becoming the most successful Irish film of 2013.”

Transcript from ‘Ginger Bucks Matter | Martin Maloney aka Eddie Durkan’ podcast

Chris and Martin

M – We’re live!

C – We are live! Martin, how are you mate?

M – Very good Chris, thank you very much, how are you doing?

C – Ahhh, it’s so good to speak to you, I am absolutely made up!

M – I have to say I was seriously impressed with the Robbie Williams interview if I do say so myself. If it’s good enough for Robbie Williams it’s good enough for Martin Maloney.

C – Well, yeah I have to say I was good in that yes! …

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