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Back to SearchBenito Mussolini Part 3: Murder in Broad Daylight
Season 5 Episode 130
World leaders line up to hail the new Italian strongman. But the fascists are already silencing dissenting voices. An epochal discovery in Egypt’s Va…
1 year, 9 months ago
Benito Mussolini Part 2: The March on Rome
Season 5 Episode 129
Wounded at the Front, Mussolini’s war ends early. A playboy aristocrat forms his own private army, offering inspiration to Il Duce. As Italian worker…
1 year, 10 months ago
Introducing: Sherlock Holmes Short Stories
Season 5
A brand-new release from the Noiser Network. Join Hugh Bonneville on a thrilling journey through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most celebrated Holmes myst…
1 year, 10 months ago
Benito Mussolini Part 1: Italy’s Fascist Godfather
Season 5 Episode 128
We begin at the end… in 1945, with a pile of bodies dumped in Milan then strung up for all to see. Among them, the most powerful man in Italy. One of…
1 year, 10 months ago
General Videla Part 4: Dictator in the Courtroom
Season 5 Episode 127
The Falklands War casts a long shadow over Argentina as the junta teeters on the verge of collapse. The country slowly returns to democracy. But that…
1 year, 11 months ago
General Videla Part 3: God, Football, the Falklands
Season 5 Episode 126
The 1978 FIFA World Cup rolls into Argentina. A surreal fortnight ensues. Fans flock to revamped stadia, while just metres away prisoners cower - hid…
1 year, 11 months ago
General Videla Part 2: Mr Clean’s Dirty War
Season 5 Episode 125
Videla’s dirty war begins. ‘Subversives’ are rooted out, with torture centres established across the land - including one known as the ‘Argentine Aus…
1 year, 11 months ago
General Videla Part 1: The Skinny One and the Witch
Season 5 Episode 124
Argentina. The story of a gaunt, hawkish man who earned the nickname “the Hitler of the Pampa”. A man whose awkward bearing belied his capacity for c…
1 year, 11 months ago
BONUS: Dictators’ Books
Season 5 Episode 123
Almost every dictator, at one time or another, has put pen to paper. Some have wrestled with ideas, with philosophy. Many have merely vented - spewin…
2 years ago
Pinochet Part 3: Searching for the Disappeared
Season 5 Episode 122
Pinochet consolidates control, creating a terrifying new secret police force. The dictator’s war on communism extends abroad, as Chile joins Operatio…
2 years, 1 month ago