Brian Klaas
Thursday 09 April 2020 : Pandemics are horrifying. But what if one could be unleashed deliberately — by terrorists or a disgruntled scientist? How did ancient...
Thursday 02 April 2020 : When revolutions happen, everything changes. In this episode, we'll look at why one revolution was launched when a rebel leader in southeast...
Thursday 26 March 2020 : Pandemics are as old as human civilisation, from the Plague of Athens to mysterious diseases that ravaged armies throughout history. But...
Thursday 19 March 2020 : Have you ever made a catastrophic mistake? What if your mistakes could cause an empire to fall, a war to start, or thirty million people to...
Thursday 05 March 2020 : Christopher Blair has been called the Godfather of Fake News. He's an American troll. And whether you realized it or not, you've probably...
Thursday 27 February 2020 : When a brutal dictatorship collapses, there's a big problem: everyone who knows how to run the government is someone who worked for the...
Thursday 20 February 2020 : If you're trying to consolidate power as a dictator, what's the best way to go about it? Is it better to be feared or loved? How do you...
Thursday 13 February 2020 : Mercenaries are sometimes described as "the world's second oldest profession." But how do they operate today? Can mercenary armies topple...
Thursday 23 January 2020 : Come explore the dark side of power as we travel across the globe meeting the often unsavory characters who inhabit the hidden world of...
Thursday 22 August 2019 : To end our first season we look at Nepotism. What’s it like to be the son or daughter of a dictator? Why did one dictator’s son go from...
Thursday 15 August 2019 : What makes ordinary people commit extraordinarily violent acts? Is it their brain chemistry? Social pressure? Or a charismatic leader...
Thursday 08 August 2019 : When you think of heists, you probably think of masked men, bank robbers, and priceless art. But governments carry out heists, too. In this...
Thursday 25 July 2019 : The UK has a new prime minister. On his first day, Boris Johnson will handwrite four identical letters to the captains of Britain's nuclear...
Thursday 18 July 2019 : How did 2 guys you've never heard of save the world from nuclear apocalypse? Can nuclear weapons be hacked? What's the most consequential...
Thursday 11 July 2019 : You’ve probably heard of money laundering, but how does it actually work? How did billions of dollars of dirty gold from South America...
Thursday 04 July 2019 : Why are countries that are rich in natural resources so often poor and war-torn? You’ve probably heard of blood diamonds, but what about...
Thursday 20 June 2019 : What's something that you do every 2 weeks? For Michelle Lyons, over a span of 12 years, she watched someone get executed every two weeks in...
Thursday 13 June 2019 : Why did the CIA try to kill an African political leader with poisoned toothpaste? How did a sturdy couch save a leader from being killed...
Thursday 06 June 2019 : Why did the war in Afghanistan hinge on the ability of a teenager to help buy 100 million bullets for the US military? Where do you even go...
Thursday 30 May 2019 : What's the best way to smuggle a crocodile onto an airplane? What is the journey actually like for migrants getting smuggled from...
Power Corrupts
Brian Klaas
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