‘Words lead to violence’: How a groundbreaking Mussolini drama examines the birth of fascism

Next month an epic eight-part biopic of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini airs on Sky. Craig McLean visits the set in Rome and talks to those who worked on the project, including the British director Joe Wright, on the importance of understanding the man behind the bloodshed, why the fascist dictator appealed to so many people, and how he wrote the playbook for 21st-century strongman politics