Augustus Part 3: Birth of a Dynasty
With his enemies vanquished Octavian returns to a hero’s welcome. Consolidating personal rule over Rome’s vast dominions, he begins dismantl...
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Real Dictators
Real Dictators is the new podcast series hosted by Paul McGann that explores the hidden lives of history’s tyrants. New episodes every Wednesday. Follow Noiser Podcasts on Twitter for update...
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20 of 162 episodesAugustus Part 2: Caesar’s Revenge
Alongside Mark Antony, Octavian hunts down Great-Uncle Julius’s assassins. But Antony will soon go rogue, beguiled - just like Caesar - by Q...
Augustus Part 1: Rome’s First Emperor
On the Ides of March 44BC, Julius Caesar is murdered in the Senate. With Rome’s long-time dictator deposed, the would-be inheritors of his e...
Tito Part 5: The Sun King
Tito becomes an international celebrity, with a jet-set lifestyle to match his status. His hybrid ‘coca-cola socialism’ sees Yugoslavia boom...
Tito Part 4: The Marshal Versus Stalin
In the war’s aftermath Tito exacts his bloody revenge. Manoeuvring the king out of the picture, Yugoslavia is swiftly consolidated under com...
Tito Part 3: The Partisan in the Mountains
When the Nazis invade Yugoslavia Tito takes to the mountains. Winston Churchill dispatches a crack team of paratroopers, led by a man rumour...
Tito Part 2: The Man of Disguises
An assassination in Marseilles plunges the Balkans into turmoil. The Europe-wide battles of Black versus Red make their way onto the streets...
Tito Part 1: The Young Gun
Josip Broz was the wartime resistance leader who became Tito, the strongman ruler of Yugoslavia. He defeated both Hitler and Mussolini. He s...
Introducing: Founding Fathers: An American Dream - Episode 1
This is a preview of a brand-new show from the Noiser Podcast Network. Hosted by Clarke Peters (The Wire, The Boroughs), 'Founding Fathers:...
Introducing: Real Vikings - Episode 1
This is a preview of a brand-new show from the Noiser podcast network. Hosted by Iain Glen (Game of Thrones, Silo), Real Vikings takes you o...
Jean-Bédel Bokassa Part 3: A Coronation for the Ages
The new emperor of the Central African Republic is introduced to the world in a totally surreal manner - with white horses from Belgium, fin...
Jean-Bédel Bokassa Part 2: The Power Grab, the Châteaux and the Missing Daughter
A new year brings new beginnings in the Central African Republic. President Bokassa attempts to modernise. But at the same time, the mass in...
Jean-Bédel Bokassa Part 1: The Butcher of Bangui
The former soldier in the French army who seized power in his African homeland. The leader of the Central African Republic who proclaimed hi...
Introducing: Charles Dickens Ghost Stories - A Christmas Carol
This is a preview of a brand-new audiobook from the Noiser Podcast Network. Join Sir David Suchet as he reads a selection of Charles Dickens...
Fidel Castro Part 10: Emergency on an Airplane
The end arrives. Embarrassed at a baseball game, the Maximum Leader responds with arrests and intimidation. We hear first-hand testimony fro...
Fidel Castro Part 9: Down With Fidel!
After a tragedy in the Florida Straits, a dramatic tug of war takes place between Castro and America - all centred on a five-year-old boy. A...
Fidel Castro Part 8: Miami Vice
When a bomb goes off on a south Florida street, it bears all the hallmarks of a Cuban expert. Castroland is going international. As exiles f...
Fidel Castro Part 7: Che Guevara in the Jungle
Castro sets out to create a breed of “new people” - turning Cuba into an island of mini-Fidels. A particular dairy cow becomes a national tr...
Fidel Castro Part 6: The Cuban Missile Crisis
The first man in space arrives in Cuba for a special visit. A passenger liner from the Soviet Union docks in Havana. But it’s not carrying t...
Fidel Castro Part 5: The Bay of Pigs
A man who was right there tells us the tale of one of history’s most notorious military failures. Castro’s former lover is given a handful o...