Trailer: Real Dictators

How does a single human being convince thousands to kill for them
and millions to turn a blind eye? Real Dictators is the new podcast
series hosted by Paul McGann (Dr Who, Luther, Withnail and I) that
explores the hidden lives of history’s tyrants. We encounter the
American-trained doctor, “Papa Doc” Duvalier, who used modern
medicine to convince the people of Haiti that he was a Voodoo god.
There’s Kim Jong-il, who developed nuclear warheads alongside
blockbuster movies. There’s Mao Zedong – the peasant’s son who
transformed China, presiding over the catastrophic Great Chinese
Famine and the bloody Cultural Revolution. And Joseph Stalin,
the man who turned Russia into a superpower and set the stage for
the Cold War, while upending and destroying the lives and
livelihoods of millions of his own people.  Real Dictators
fuses immersive, dramatic storytelling with interviews with
world-renowned experts. The voices of historians sit alongside an
array of regime insiders such as Jang Jin-sung – a former
psychological warfare officer for Kim Jong-il – and François
Benoit, a survivor of ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier’s reign of terror. New
episodes on Wednesdays from May 2020. For ad-free listening,
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