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WARNING: Explicit language. Content (and people) that may disturb.

Geraint Jones chats with Mike Royall, a former 3 Para Sniper who's army career came to an unwanted end following an encounter with an IED.  Among the topics of discussion on this episode; squaddies and their money; washing in rivers (as a civvie); and the healing power of the outdoors.

You can connect with Geraint at @grjbooks across social media, and find his Afghanistan memoir Brothers in Arms in all good book stores.

Mike is online at @treebearduk. Go check out his beard.

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