Épisodes

  • Ep. 1: Public Enemy No. 1
    Aug 17 2020

    This story starts in Hungary, 1989, the year Misha Glenny first set eyes on Viktor Orban - then a young student activist calling for an end to communist rule. Three decades later, Glenny asks: how did this once passionate liberal turn into the original strongman?

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    33 min
  • Ep. 2: Duterte Harry
    Aug 17 2020

    He's called Pope Francis a "son of a whore", he wolf-whistles at female journalists, and he boasts about killing drug dealers - how did this provincial mayor become President of the Philippines?

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    36 min
  • Ep. 3: A Very Strange Coup
    Aug 17 2020

    One summer’s evening in July 2016, fighter jets started circling around Istanbul, Turkey. It was the beginning of a military coup to overthrow modern Turkey’s longest-serving ruler - President Recep Tayipp Erdogan.

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    35 min
  • Ep. 4: The Accidental President
    Aug 17 2020

    A series of protests, a corruption investigation, and an impeachment. This is the story of how a fringe politician, nostalgic for Brazil’s military dictatorship, ended up becoming its leader.

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    28 min
  • Ep. 5: The Emperor of Hindu Hearts
    Aug 17 2020

    Who is the man elected leader of the world’s largest democracy?

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    34 min
  • Ep. 6: The National Comedian
    Aug 17 2020

    Bumbling buffoon, or secret strongman? In the final episode, Misha Glenny turns his lens on someone much closer to home - British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.

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    45 min