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 most notorious tyrants. We meet American-trained doctor Papa Doc Duvalier, who used modern medicine to convince Haiti that he was a Voodoo god. There’s Kim Jong Il, whose antics saw him develop nuclear warheads and blockbuster films, Mao Zedong: the peasant’s son who transformed China, and Joseph Stalin, the man who turned Russia into a superpower and set the stage for the Cold War. Real Dictators fuses immersive, dramatic storytelling with interviews with world-renowned experts such Sir Antony Beevor, James Holland, Sir Max Hastings and various regime insiders such as Jang Jing-Sung – former Psychological Warfare Officer for Kim Jong-Il. New Episodes each Wednesday from May 2020
