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?

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?

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.

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.

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

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.