BONUS: Dictators’ Chefs
Real Dictators9 Touko 2023

BONUS: Dictators’ Chefs

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 Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks. The role of personal chef to a dictator is a fascinating one. It’s an extremely intimate relationship. These cooks have literally nourished tyrants. They’ve satisfied their culinary cravings, altered their moods for better and worse, and even influenced their policies. So what can they tell us about dictators’ appetites? Real Dictators will return soon for Season 5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Adolf Hitler Part 7: The Day of Treason

Adolf Hitler Part 7: The Day of Treason

In the final part of Hitler’s Early Years, the Nazi leader launches his very own assault on power: the Munich Putsch. Under cover of darkness, the SA prepare to storm locations across Munich. Hitler h...

4 Touko 202135min

Adolf Hitler Part 6: Hitler’s Secret Book

Adolf Hitler Part 6: Hitler’s Secret Book

The Nazis kickstart their media operation. Desperate to be an icon, Hitler pens a secret autobiography, where he compares his own rise to Jesus’s resurrection. French and Belgian troops cross the Germ...

27 Huhti 202135min

Adolf Hitler Part 5: The Stormtroopers Arrive

Adolf Hitler Part 5: The Stormtroopers Arrive

Hitler decides he needs an army of his own. The Nazis create a new paramilitary unit – the Sturmabteilung, or SA. These hooligans take National Socialism onto the streets. Hitler assembles an executiv...

20 Huhti 202140min

Adolf Hitler Part 4: The Spy Becomes the Nazi Leader

Adolf Hitler Part 4: The Spy Becomes the Nazi Leader

Hitler is sent undercover, tasked with spying on a band of extremists. But he soon falls under their spell and breaks cover to join their ranks. They will soon become the Nazi Party, and this new recr...

13 Huhti 202138min

Adolf Hitler Part 3: The 'Stab in the Back'

Adolf Hitler Part 3: The 'Stab in the Back'

The Great War ends. Hitler despairs. The Kaiser does a runner. Revolutions break out across Germany. Discharged from hospital, Hitler returns home to Munich, desperate to keep his army job. The Allies...

6 Huhti 202148min

Adolf Hitler Part 2: Hitler in the First World War

Adolf Hitler Part 2: Hitler in the First World War

June 1914, Sarajevo. An assassination on the street disrupts the entire balance of power in Europe. The First World War explodes into action. Adolf Hitler relocates to Munich. After dodging the draft,...

30 Maalis 202144min

Adolf Hitler Part 1: Birth of a Führer

Adolf Hitler Part 1: Birth of a Führer

You may know something of the Hitler story. But there’s a decent chance you don’t know the half of it. We begin a deep dive into the early years of a man who became the very embodiment of evil. Peelin...

24 Maalis 202144min

Introducing: Real Narcos Season 2 - Félix Gallardo

Introducing: Real Narcos Season 2 - Félix Gallardo

From the creators of Real Dictators comes Real Narcos, the show that takes you to the front line of the war on drugs. For Season 2, we're in Mexico. In 1985, Kiki Camarena is a US DEA agent on the tra...

26 Tammi 202140min