However be aware, your brother, Farouk, consolidates power and influence with the intention to overthrow you! How will you manage affairs with your neighboring countries while ensuring you don't attract too much negative attention from the Americans? Will you be a generous donor to the United Nations? Or an international pariah building nuclear weapons in secret? The choice is yours in Rogue State. You are the Glorious Leader who must hold onto power by maintaining the delicate balance between the interests of fundamentalists, capitalists, patriots, and liberals. 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.You led the revolution that freed the People's Republic of Basenji from the shackles of a corrupt monarchy. Real Dictators fuses immersive, dramatic storytelling with interviews with world-renowned experts. 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. There’s Mao Zedong – the peasant’s son who transformed China, presiding over the catastrophic Great Chinese Famine and the bloody Cultural Revolution. There’s Kim Jong-il, who developed nuclear warheads alongside blockbuster movies. We encounter the American-trained doctor, “Papa Doc” Duvalier, who used modern medicine to convince the people of Haiti that he was a Voodoo god. 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 tyrants. HOW DOES A SINGLE HUMAN BEING CONVINCE THOUSANDS TO KILL FOR THEM AND MILLIONS TO TURN A BLIND EYE?
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