Category: Autobiography & Biographies, Misc. Non-fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: History
Written by Real Dictators Podcasts
Read by Paul McGann
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 96 Kbps
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 historyâs tyrants. We encounter the American-trained doctor, âPapa Docâ Duvalier, who used modern medicine to convince the people of Haiti that he was a Voodoo god. Thereâs Kim Jong-il, who developed nuclear warheads alongside blockbuster movies. Thereâs Mao Zedong â the peasantâs 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 â a former psychological warfare officer for Kim Jong-il â and François Benoit, a survivor of âPapa Docâ Duvalierâs reign of terror.
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 historyâs tyrants. We encounter the American-trained doctor, âPapa Docâ Duvalier, who used modern medicine to convince the people of Haiti that he was a Voodoo god. Thereâs Kim Jong-il, who developed nuclear warheads alongside blockbuster movies. Thereâs Mao Zedong â the peasantâs 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 â a former psychological warfare officer for Kim Jong-il â and François Benoit, a survivor of âPapa Docâ Duvalierâs reign of terror.