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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