Tim Spicer - An Axe and Four Balloons: The Biography of Brian Franks DSO MC ...with TRE's Giles Brown

Talk Radio Europe · Oct 21, 2026 · 30:20

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This story is not just another history of the SAS. It is the only biography of an extraordinary man, ‘whose courage made it easier for us to be brave’. Brian Franks, tough, capable and charismatic and loved by officers and soldiers alike, is largely unknown outside the Special Operations world but has been credited by David Stirling as being one of the five founding fathers of the SAS.

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