Benito Mussolini Part 3: Murder in Broad Daylight

Real Dictators

NOISER

History, Fiction, Drama

4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

World leaders line up to hail the new Italian strongman. But the fascists are already silencing dissenting voices. An epochal discovery in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings unleashes a curse, or so Mussolini believes. Il Duce gets his top off in the wheat fields - making sure to be caught on camera. He comes to an arrangement with the Pope and meets the woman who will ultimately die by his side. Meanwhile, an Anglo-Irish aristocrat prepares to make an astonishing attempt on Mussolini’s life… A Noiser production, written by Jeff Dawson. Many thanks to Giulia Albanese, Joshua Arthurs, John Foot, Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, Lisa Pine, Helen Roche. This is Part 3 of 7. Get every episode of Real Dictators a week early with Noiser+. You’ll also get ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to shows across the Noiser network. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.1	It's June the 10th, 1924. We're in the center of Rome. At 4.40pm the day is still hot, stifling.
0:45.3	Along the embankment of the Tiber River walks a slim, elegant man. He's dressed in a suit and bowtie.
0:52.3	His name is Jakumo Mateotti, and he's a deputy, a member of the Italian parliament.
1:00.0	A lawyer by training, Matyote is the leading voice on the Italian left, an impressive speaker, a thoughtful writer.
1:10.0	A man of conscience.
1:11.6	He objected to Italy's involvement in the Great War.
1:14.6	He was imprisoned for his pains.
1:16.6	Aged 39, Matayotti has a wife and three young children.
1:23.6	And for the sake of them and for all that he holds dear, he can no longer stand by.
1:31.7	He cannot be an onlooker while democracy in Italy is being trashed, pulled to pieces by Mussolini's
1:37.9	fascist regime. Eleven days ago at great personal risk, he stood in the chamber and made an impassioned speech.
1:47.0	He denounced the recent national elections.
1:50.0	They had been manipulated to ensure a fascist majority, he protested.
1:55.0	With violence and intimidation at the polling stations,
1:59.0	no way could the vote be described as free and fair.
2:02.9	The result should be annulled. As he strolls, preoccupied, Mateochi doesn't notice the
2:13.9	Lancia Capa that has been crawling along the curb behind him, nor the
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