Real Dictators is the award-winning podcast that explores the hidden lives of history's tyrants. Hos
Mao Zedong's Communists come down from the mountains to do battle with the Nationalists. After clinc
In the centre of China’s capital city, Beijing, lies a corpse that no one dares remove. It’s been 44
Stalin’s regime hits the rocks when Adolf Hitler launches Operation Barbarossa and invades Russia. N
With the First World War underway, Stalin’s journey to dictatorship grinds into gear. After the War,
Joseph Stalin - the “man of steel” - was the party secretary who plotted a route to absolute power,
Installed as dictator, Kim Jong-il builds an all-powerful state that dominates the lives and minds o
Kim Jong-il has risen to become propaganda chief under the rule of his father. Now, he hatches an au
Kim Jong-il built a rogue state with nuclear missiles trained on its enemies – all while living a li
How does a single human being convince thousands to kill for them and millions to turn a blind eye?R