Dictators & Demagogues 04: Hungary's Viktor Orban
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At just 35 Viktor Orban, then a fiery radical, became Europe's youngest prime minister. Since then, his political brand has undergone an astonishing change.
So how did the student dissident become a 21st Century demagogue?
Guests:
Zsuzsanna Szelenyi - Program director at the CEU Democracy Institute, former Hungarian politician and author, Tainted Democracy Viktor Orban and the Subversion of Hungary
Nick Thorpe - The BBC's Central Europe correspondent
Ben Wellings - Associate Professor of politics and international relations at Monash University
Producers: Zoe Ferguson and Linda Lopresti
Executive Producer: Amruta Slee
Sound Engineer: John Jacobs
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