Real Dictators

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Subscribers: 4621
Reviews: 23
Episodes: 137


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rey zaldy serna
 Jan 29, 2024
noiser? it must be good, very very good.

Greg Radford
 Oct 6, 2023
I love Paul's narration, I came here from A Short History. so good to listen to.


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NGC300
 Sep 2, 2021
Excellent production.


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Dan G
 Feb 11, 2021
5 stars! great material, well presented

Chris
 Dec 22, 2020
excellent podcast. great presentation, somewhat unique and interesting subject matter. good flow. excellent.

Jason
 Dec 9, 2020
Awesome podcast, can't produce these fast enough, very interesting material!

inaccurate
 Nov 29, 2020

mike
 Nov 28, 2020
Really good!

Me
 Aug 16, 2020
Great BBC Documentary

Description

Real Dictators is the award-winning podcast that explores the hidden lives of history's tyrants. Hosted by Paul McGann, with contributions from eyewitnesses and expert historians. New episodes available one week early for Noiser+ subscribers. You'll also get ad-free listening and exclusive content. To find out more about Noiser+, head to noiser.com/subscriptions. For advertising enquiries, email info@adelicious.fm Production: Joel Duddell, Ed Baranski, Miriam Baines, Tom Pink, George Tapp, Dorry Macaulay, Cian Ryan-Morgan, Anisha Devadasan, Joseph McGann. Compositions by Oliver Baines, Dorry Macaulay, Tom Pink. We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/real for £100 sponsored credit.

Episode Date
Benito Mussolini Part 7: Break for the Border…
Jan 29, 2025
Benito Mussolini Part 6: The Road to Perdition
Jan 22, 2025
Benito Mussolini Part 5: The Pact of Steel
Jan 15, 2025
Benito Mussolini Part 4: A Fine Bromance
Jan 08, 2025
Benito Mussolini Part 3: Murder in Broad Daylight
Jan 01, 2025
Benito Mussolini Part 2: The March on Rome
Dec 18, 2024
Introducing: Sherlock Holmes Short Stories
Dec 16, 2024
Benito Mussolini Part 1: Italy’s Fascist Godfather
Dec 11, 2024
General Videla Part 4: Dictator in the Courtroom
Nov 20, 2024
General Videla Part 3: God, Football, the Falklands
Nov 13, 2024
General Videla Part 2: Mr Clean’s Dirty War
Nov 06, 2024
General Videla Part 1: The Skinny One and the Witch
Oct 30, 2024
BONUS: Dictators’ Books
Sep 24, 2024
Pinochet Part 3: Searching for the Disappeared
Sep 10, 2024
Pinochet Part 2: The Caravan of Death
Sep 03, 2024
Pinochet Part 1: An Arrest in London
Aug 27, 2024
Introducing: D-Day: The Tide Turns - Episode 1
Jun 05, 2024
Oliver Cromwell Part 4: The Conquest of Ireland
May 07, 2024
Oliver Cromwell Part 3: To Kill a King…
Apr 30, 2024
Oliver Cromwell Part 2: Civil War Across the Realms
Apr 23, 2024
Oliver Cromwell Part 1: The Rise of Ironsides
Apr 16, 2024
Introducing: The Curious History of Your Home - Baths
Apr 11, 2024
Enver Hoxha Part 2: Stalin’s Shadow, Europe’s North Korea
Mar 20, 2024
Enver Hoxha Part 1: The Albanian School Teacher
Mar 13, 2024
Herod the Great Part 2: Murders in the Family
Dec 27, 2023
Herod the Great Part 1: Ruler of Galilee
Dec 20, 2023
Saddam Hussein Part 5: The War on Terror
Dec 13, 2023
Saddam Hussein Part 4: The First Gulf War
Dec 06, 2023
Saddam Hussein Part 3: Oil and the Ayatollah
Nov 29, 2023
Saddam Hussein Part 2: Enforcer, Frontman, Mafia Godfather
Nov 22, 2023
Saddam Hussein Part 1: Son of the Alleyways
Nov 15, 2023
Macías Nguema Part 2: Hiding in the Jungle with all the Money
Nov 08, 2023
Macías Nguema Part 1: The Dachau of Africa
Nov 01, 2023
Hitler: The Bunker and the End (Part 25)
Oct 03, 2023
Hitler: Operation Valkyrie, Blowing up the Führer (Part 24)
Sep 26, 2023
Hitler: Mussolini’s Prison Break (Part 23)
Sep 19, 2023
Hitler: The Battle of Stalingrad (Part 22)
Sep 12, 2023
Adolf Hitler: The Final Solution (Part 21)
Sep 05, 2023
Introducing: Real Survival Stories - Glacier Escape
Aug 16, 2023
Attila the Hun Part 2: The Scourge of God
Aug 08, 2023
Attila the Hun Part 1: The Sword of Mars
Aug 01, 2023
Manuel Noriega Part 3: Bush Invades Panama
Jul 11, 2023
Manuel Noriega Part 2: A Tale of Two Spy Chiefs
Jul 04, 2023
Manuel Noriega Part 1: The Narco Dictator
Jun 27, 2023
BONUS: Dictators’ Chefs
May 09, 2023
Introducing: Detectives Don’t Sleep - The Nazi Art Mystery (Part 1 of 3)
Apr 17, 2023
Hitler: Attack on Russia, War with America… (Part 20)
Mar 15, 2023
Adolf Hitler vs Winston Churchill (Part 19)
Mar 08, 2023
Hitler: A Brush With Death… (Part 18)
Mar 01, 2023
Hitler’s Birthday, Poland’s Doom (Part 17)
Feb 22, 2023
Hitler: The Gathering Storm... (Part 16)
Feb 15, 2023
Adolf Hitler: Unassailable Führer (Part 15)
Feb 08, 2023
Robert Mugabe Part 4: A Game of Thrones
Nov 30, 2022
Robert Mugabe Part 3: Zimbabwe’s Tsunami
Nov 23, 2022
Robert Mugabe Part 2: The Leopard’s True Spots…
Nov 16, 2022
Robert Mugabe Part 1: The Young Scholar
Nov 09, 2022
Robert Mugabe: Coming Soon on Real Dictators…
Oct 25, 2022
Lenin Part 4: Ghost at the Kremlin
Oct 18, 2022
Lenin Part 3: First Russia, Then the World…
Oct 11, 2022
Lenin Part 2: Underground, On the Run
Oct 04, 2022
Lenin Part 1: The Revolution is Born
Sep 27, 2022
Vladimir Lenin: Coming Soon on Real Dictators…
Sep 13, 2022
Napoleon Part 6: Showdown at Waterloo
Sep 06, 2022
Napoleon Part 5: Downfall in Russia
Aug 30, 2022
Napoleon Part 4: The Emperor Strikes Back
Aug 23, 2022
Napoleon Part 3: The Egyptian Adventure
Aug 16, 2022
Napoleon Part 2: The Italian Job
Aug 09, 2022
Napoleon Part 1: The Humble Corsican
Aug 02, 2022
Napoleon: Coming Soon on Real Dictators…
Jul 19, 2022
Pol Pot Part 4: The Killing Fields
Jul 05, 2022
Pol Pot Part 3: Vietnam War, Cambodian Revolution
Jun 28, 2022
Pol Pot Part 2: Welcome to the Jungle
Jun 21, 2022
Pol Pot Part 1: Tyrant in the Shadows
Jun 21, 2022
Pol Pot: Coming Soon on Real Dictators…
Jun 14, 2022
Introducing: Real Outlaws - Billy the Kid Part 1
May 24, 2022
Julius Caesar Part 3: Murder in the Senate
May 17, 2022
Julius Caesar Part 2: Rendezvous With Cleopatra
May 10, 2022
Julius Caesar Part 1: The Roman Dictator
May 03, 2022
Julius Caesar: Coming Soon on Real Dictators...
Apr 26, 2022
Genghis Khan Part 2: Rise of the Mongols
Mar 29, 2022
Genghis Khan Part 1: Underdog to Emperor
Mar 23, 2022
Hitler: Night of the Long Knives (Part 14)
Mar 16, 2022
Hitler: The Reichstag Fire (Part 13)
Mar 09, 2022
Adolf Hitler Seizes Power (Part 12)
Mar 02, 2022
Hitler's Secret Family (Part 11)
Feb 23, 2022
Hitler's Women & Joseph Goebbels (Part 10)
Feb 16, 2022
Introducing: Short History Of... Bonnie and Clyde
Feb 11, 2022
Hitler in Prison & Mein Kampf (Part 9)
Feb 09, 2022
Adolf Hitler's Day in Court (Part 8)
Feb 02, 2022
Turkmenbashy Part 2: Putin, Taliban, Internet Shutdown
Jan 26, 2022
Turkmenbashy Part 1: Soviet Stooge, Hermit Tyrant
Jan 14, 2022
Idi Amin Part 6: The Entebbe Raid
Dec 22, 2021
Idi Amin Part 5: Husband, Father, Movie Star
Dec 15, 2021
Idi Amin Part 4: Expulsion of the Asians
Dec 08, 2021
Idi Amin Part 3: ‘Big Daddy’ Seizes Power
Dec 01, 2021
Idi Amin Part 2: Warlord In-Waiting...
Nov 24, 2021
Idi Amin Part 1: The Butcher of Uganda
Nov 17, 2021
Introducing: History Daily
Nov 01, 2021
Introducing: Short History Of...
Aug 10, 2021
Colonel Gaddafi Part 8: The Arab Spring
Aug 03, 2021
Colonel Gaddafi Part 7: 9/11 and a New Ally
Jul 27, 2021
Colonel Gaddafi Part 6: The Lockerbie Bombing
Jul 20, 2021
Colonel Gaddafi Part 5: Reagan vs Gaddafi
Jul 13, 2021
Colonel Gaddafi Part 4: The Munich Olympic Massacre
Jul 06, 2021
Colonel Gaddafi Part 3: Vengeance Day
Jun 29, 2021
Colonel Gaddafi Part 2: Gaddafi in London
Jun 22, 2021
Colonel Gaddafi Part 1: Son of the Desert
Jun 15, 2021
Franco Part 5: Life After a Dictator
Jun 08, 2021
Franco Part 4: The Cold War & the President
Jun 01, 2021
Franco Part 3: The Spanish Civil War
May 25, 2021
Franco Part 2: Murder in Africa
May 18, 2021
Franco Part 1: Spain’s Buried Past
May 11, 2021
Adolf Hitler Part 7: The Day of Treason
May 04, 2021
Adolf Hitler Part 6: Hitler’s Secret Book
Apr 27, 2021
Adolf Hitler Part 5: The Stormtroopers Arrive
Apr 20, 2021
Adolf Hitler Part 4: The Spy Becomes the Nazi Leader
Apr 13, 2021
Adolf Hitler Part 3: The 'Stab in the Back'
Apr 06, 2021
Adolf Hitler Part 2: Hitler in the First World War
Mar 30, 2021
Adolf Hitler Part 1: Birth of a Führer
Mar 24, 2021
Introducing: Real Narcos Season 2 - Félix Gallardo
Jan 26, 2021
General Tojo Part 4: The Atom Bombs
Dec 07, 2020
General Tojo Part 3: Attack on Pearl Harbor
Nov 30, 2020
General Tojo Part 2: Terror in China
Nov 22, 2020
General Tojo Part 1: The Young Samurai
Nov 16, 2020
Papa Doc Part 3: Vampire of the Caribbean
Sep 09, 2020
Papa Doc Part 2: Haiti’s Dictator vs JFK
Sep 02, 2020
Papa Doc Part 1: The Voodoo Tyrant
Aug 26, 2020
Mao Zedong Part 3: The Cultural Revolution
Aug 11, 2020
Mao Zedong Part 2: The ‘Great Leap Forward’
Aug 04, 2020
Mao Zedong Part 1: Peasant’s Son, Communist Rebel
Jul 28, 2020
Joseph Stalin Part 3: Hitler Attacks
Jul 14, 2020
Joseph Stalin Part 2: The Secretary Becomes Dictator
Jul 08, 2020
Joseph Stalin Part 1: The Young Bank Robber
Jul 01, 2020
Kim Jong-il Part 3: Nuclear Armed
Jun 24, 2020
Kim Jong-il Part 2: Time to Make a Movie…
Jun 15, 2020
Kim Jong-il Part 1: Birth of North Korea
Jun 08, 2020
Trailer: Real Dictators
Apr 11, 2020