Podcast Episodes

BONUS: Dictators’ Chefs

Season 4 Episode 93

For this special bonus episode, Noiser writer Duncan Barrett sat down for a chat with Witold Szabłowski, author of How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hus…

3 years, 5 months ago

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Introducing: Detectives Don’t Sleep - The Nazi Art Mystery (Part 1 of 3)

Season 4 Episode 92

The makers of Real Dictators present a brand-new podcast: Detectives Don’t Sleep. Step beyond the police tape to shadow the real detectives who worke…

3 years, 6 months ago

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Hitler: Attack on Russia, War with America… (Part 20)

Season 4 Episode 91

The Führer’s deputy embarks on an astonishing secret mission. After baling out Mussolini in the Balkans, German troops finally march into the Soviet …

3 years, 7 months ago

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Adolf Hitler vs Winston Churchill (Part 19)

Season 4 Episode 90

Installed in Downing Street, Churchill arrives with a bang. The Battle of Britain rages in the skies, while the Nazis plot a seaborne invasion across…

3 years, 7 months ago

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Hitler: A Brush With Death… (Part 18)

Season 4 Episode 89

World War Two begins. After the invasion of Poland, Hitler sets his sights on Scandinavia. A devastating lightning war rolls over Western Europe, as …

3 years, 7 months ago

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Hitler’s Birthday, Poland’s Doom (Part 17)

Season 4 Episode 88

Hitler continues his Godfather act, ignoring the Munich settlement and gobbling up the rest of Czechoslovakia. As he turns 50, the Führer is showered…

3 years, 8 months ago

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Hitler: The Gathering Storm... (Part 16)

Season 4 Episode 87

Hitler expands the Third Reich, annexing Austria and the Sudetenland. Britain and France seek a diplomatic solution at the Munich Conference. But how…

3 years, 8 months ago

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Adolf Hitler: Unassailable Führer (Part 15)

Season 4 Episode 86

This is Part 15 of the Hitler Story. You can start listening here. Or, scroll down the Real Dictators feed for episodes on Hitler’s early years and r…

3 years, 8 months ago

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Robert Mugabe Part 4: A Game of Thrones

Season 4 Episode 85

At the age of 93, Mugabe’s days in office are numbered. But the succession crisis threatens to tear Zimbabwe apart. In South Africa, exiles hatch an …

3 years, 10 months ago

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Robert Mugabe Part 3: Zimbabwe’s Tsunami

Season 4 Episode 84

After two decades in office, Mugabe has already shown himself to be a tyrant. At the dawn of the 21st century, the outside world sits up and takes no…

3 years, 10 months ago

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