ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Extraordinary lives. Independent spirits. Stories about people, pressure and the choices that shape us.
Author, filmmaker and former SAS Troop Commander Tom Petch talks to remarkable people about the beliefs they live by, the challenges they face and what keeps them moving when the plan disappears. Rooted in the special forces community, Irregular Lives reaches beyond military experience to explore courage, character and taking a different path.
Author, filmmaker and former SAS Troop Commander Tom Petch talks to remarkable people about the beliefs they live by, the challenges they face and what keeps them moving when the plan disappears. Rooted in the special forces community, Irregular Lives reaches beyond military experience to explore courage, character and taking a different path.
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82 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United Kingdom
6 episodes
since Oct. 17, 2025
episodic
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What does a sniper actually see?
Not a silhouette.
Not a target.
A person.
In this episode, Ted Shirley — former British Army sniper and author of Afghanistan Sniper — speaks openly about the reality behind the shot.
“You’re looking at a human being… and the impact of a round flying toward them.”
F…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Tom Petch sits down with former British Army officer CaptainRachel Webster, whose 24-year career spanned Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan - only to end in a dawn arrest she describes as “the most horrendous experience” of her life.
From becoming one of the first female welder…
In this episode, Tom Petch speaks to Sir Laurie Bristow, the UK’s last Ambassador to Afghanistan, about the final months, weeks, and days before the fall of Kabul in August 2021.
Drawing on his unique position at the intersection of diplomacy, military planning, and crisis decision-making, Bristow …
Colonel Stuart Tootal commanded 3 PARA on the British Army’s first major combat tour of Helmand Province in 2006. What followed was not peacekeeping - it was a full-scale insurgency.
In this episode of Speed. Aggression. Surprise. - The Untold Truth Behind the Story, Tom Petch sits down with one of…
Billy Billingham MBE QCB joins Tom Petch for one of the rawest conversations yet - from being stabbed at 15 and nearly going off the rails, to the Para Regiment, SAS selection, Bosnia, bodyguarding Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, and the brutal truth behind today’s investigations into British soldier…
Tom Petch sits down with Richard Williams, former commander of the SAS, for a raw, no-holds-barred conversation.
Williams breaks his silence on the legal and political firestorm engulfing Britain's most secretive unit. From operations in Afghanistan to legacy cases in Northern Ireland, he explores …
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