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Hungary goes to the polls on Sunday and for the first time in sixteen years, Donald Trump’s right-wing ally Viktor Orbán might lose his iron grip on power. But who is this man who’s ruled the country for so long? What do we know about the man who could unseat him? And what would a loss for Orbán mean for the populist right and for Europe as a whole?

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Guests:
Peter Conradi, Europe editor, The Sunday Times
Victor Sebestyen, journalist and author covering Eastern Europe & Russia

Host: Luke Jones
Producer: Sophie McNulty, Olivia Case
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Read more: Who is Peter Magyar, the man hoping to oust Viktor Orban?
Clips: Bloomberg, DRM News, Péter Magyar - YouTube
Photo: Getty Images, The Times.

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It's the trial rocking France's intelligence service. Two guards who had always dreamt of going under cover were allegedly tricked into a plot to kill a ‘Mossad agent’, who was nothing of the sort. It's an unbelievable tale of freemasons, fake missions - and real violence, where personal grudges are dressed up as matters of national security.

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Guest: Adam Sage, Paris correspondent, The Times.
Host: Rosie Wright.
Producer: Dave Creasey.
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Read more: Freemasons, bored spies and a murder-for-hire scandal at France’s MI6
Photo: Getty Images.
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For millions of people, Disney was a huge part of their childhood. But, for a great number of people that love never went away, and today, it's those people who have become central to Disney’s bottom line. They are the so called “Disney adults”. But their world isn’t all sunshine and rainbows, it's a passionate subculture marked by competition, criticism - and high costs.

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Read by: Julia Webster and Sophie McNulty.
Producer: Dave Creasey.
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Read more: ‘Next-level scary’: inside the ultra-competitive world of Disney adults
Clips: Disney.
Photo: Getty Images.

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When The Times foreign correspondent Marc Bennetts moved to Russia in 1997, there was hope for a new future for the country. But over the next 25 years, he witnessed the rise of Vladimir Putin and the erosion of civil liberties. In his new book, The Descent: Witnessing Russia’s Spiral into Madness Under Putin, Marc charts how one man remade Russia in his own paranoid image.

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Guest: Marc Bennetts, foreign correspondent, The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producer: Micaela Arneson.
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Read more: Lies and fear: my life under the Kremlin’s propaganda machine
Further listening: ‘I took a grenade blast to escape’: Russian deserters speak to The Times
Clips: Channel One Russia, Educational Video Group, NBC News, ITN, Times Now World, Dot’s Eye.
Photo: Getty Images.

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A Sunday Times investigation has found that, in Scotland, there are claims that the SNP has, in effect, shut down criticism from the charity and voluntary sectors because of a system that leaves them umbilically tied to its political objectives and fearing grave consequences if they step out of line.

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Guest: Dan Sanderson, Scottish political editor, The Times and The Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producer: Taryn Siegel.
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Read more: How the SNP spends billions ‘to buy loyalty from charities’
Clips: 5 News, Parliament TV.
Illustration: Tony Bell.
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