Muammar Gaddafi overthrew the Libyan monarchy at twenty-seven, ruled for forty-two years as the self-styled "Brother Leader," funded terrorism and revolution across three continents, rehabilitated himself as a Western ally after 9/11, and was dragged from a drainage pipe and killed by his own people during the 2011 Arab Spring. His career was the strangest and most theatrical dictatorship of the late twentieth century.

This episode traces Gaddafi from his Bedouin childhood through the 1969 coup, the Green Book ideology, the Lockerbie bombing, the rehabilitation, and the revolution that ended with his death in a culvert.

• The Bedouin origins, the Nasser worship, and the 1969 coup that put a twenty-seven-year-old in power
• The Green Book, the Jamahiriya system, and Gaddafi's bizarre political philosophy
• The terrorism  ...