Dictators & Demagogues 04: Hungary's Viktor Orban

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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From autocratic strongmen to democratic internationalists, Hamish Macdonald examines the cultural, historical, and personal motives of people on the world stage. What would we uncover if we ask the friends, enemies, colleagues and observers to 'Take me to Your Leader!'