Between them, Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill, Boris Yeltsin and Sir Anthony Eden were poster boys for senility, drug addiction, chronic depression.

Drug addiction, chronic depression, alcoholism and insomnia - just some of the things you need to be a world leader...or so it would seem. In four extraordinary political biographies. Altered Statesman reveals the psychological secret histories of four leaders of the modern world. Each film is a combustible and gripping mix of power, insanity and narcotics that make us reassess our views of some of the most important events of the last century.—outlineproductions.co.uk