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Real Dictators

Real Dictators explores the hidden lives of history's tyrants. Narrated by Paul McGann.

Real Dictators is the award-winning podcast by Noiser that explores the hidden lives of history’s tyrants, hosted by Paul McGann. The series fuses immersive, dramatic storytelling and 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.

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