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Aug 2021
39m 23s

Riding the Populist Wave

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Carole Walker, sitting in for Matt Chorley, speaks to politics professors Tim Bale, Matthew Goodwin and Amelia Hadfield about what populism in Europe means for traditional mainstream right-wing parties. 


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Rachel Sylvester and Libby Purves discuss Afghanistan and Monica Lewinsky.

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