Liberty Dies With Thunderous Applause: Dictators of History

About Liberty Dies With Thunderous Applause: Dictators of History

Liberty Dies With Thunderous Applause is a history podcast obsessed with history's greatest dictators. The hosts have created a knockout competition to determine the single greatest dictator of all time. Each episode features a match-up of two dictators where the hosts discuss the life and times of each leader. The loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament and each winner remains in the contest to be named history's greatest dictator.

Publisher

World History Broadcasts

Category

history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Mar 2020

Latest episode

21 Apr 2025

Latest episodes

33 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Apr 2025

   Liberty Dies Will Return

   We will be back soon.

2. 

   28 Dec 2024

   Which Dictator would throw the best Christmas Party?

   It's a Liberty Dies Christmas Special! Featuring all your favourite dictators; Idi Amin, Joseph Stalin, Pope Alexander VI, Pol Pot, Kaiser Wilhelm. Adolf Hitler, Alexander the Great, General Tojo and Benito Mussolini.

3. 

   8 Nov 2024

   Ieyasu Tokugawa vs General Hideki Tojo

   The dictator knock-out tournament continues. The hosts unravel the lives and legacies of two dictators of Japan; Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa and General Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Imperial Japan. They discuss the three rulers who unified Japan, the wars and back-stabbing politics, the cause of Japan’s distinct culture and the birth of the Tokugawa dynasty They also discuss Tojo’s rise to power within the military and government, the attack on Pearl Harbour, the war in the pacific, numerous war crimes and the legacy of the second world war in the Pacific theatre. These two dictators battle it out in the knock-out tournament to determine the single greatest dictator of all time. One of these two dictators will be eliminated from the tournament and the other will remain in contention to be crowned history's biggest dictator.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

26 ratings

Spotify

4.6 / 5

191 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 23 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

9

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

92

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