Real Dictators explores the hidden lives of history's tyrants. Narrated by Paul McGann.
Sounds,·135 episodes
Hitler invades Russia, and Stalin's legacy is bound up with a bloody fight to the death.
25 Oct 2023,·45 mins,·
Stalin thrives in the chaos post WW1 but his rise to leadership does not go unchallenged.
18 Oct 2023,·50 mins,·
How did a man from the Georgian frontier of the Russian Empire plot a route to power?
11 Oct 2023,·45 mins
How does Genghis Khan conquer an empire bigger than any before in recorded history?
30 Aug 2023,·50 mins
A terror to his foes, Genghis Khan will lead the Mongol peoples far beyond their borders.
Napoleon breaks free from exile and rallies his troops for one last battle...
23 Aug 2023,·51 mins
After another dispute with Russia, Napoleon assembles his biggest ever army...
23 Aug 2023,·52 mins
Seizing power in Paris, Bonaparte returns to Italy, reconquering all that had been lost.
After a drubbing from Britain’s naval supremo, Horatio Nelson, Napoleon does a runner.
23 Aug 2023,·48 mins
Napoleon takes command of the French Army in Italy and gets a taste for political rule.
23 Aug 2023,·42 mins
You’ve heard the name Napoleon Bonaparte. But who was he, really?
Forced back into the jungle, Pol Pot will evade justice with untold blood on his hands.
23 Aug 2023,·53 mins,·
Pol Pot emerges from the Vietnam War to become the most powerful man in the land.
23 Aug 2023,·50 mins,·
Following time in France in 1949, Pol Pot returns to Cambodia a die-hard communist rebel.
23 Aug 2023,·33 mins
Who really was Pol Pot, the Cambodian dictator who preferred to operate in the shadows?
23 Aug 2023,·29 mins
