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George Osborne on covering the budget, Real Housewives' Andy Cohen, media strategies of the far right

The former Chancellor on how journalists should cover the budget.

George Osborne, presenter of Political Currency, on covering his first Labour budget as a journalist. After it was pulled from the programme of the London Film Festival at the weekend, Katie talks to the makers of the undercover film exposing UK far-right activists some consider too dangerous to show. After Katie's recent interview with Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, we look at how he used the media to promote his message and whether that鈥檚 still possible in Russia right now. And we meet the executive producer behind the Real Housewives franchise, Andy Cohen.

Guests: George Osborne, Co-host, Political Currency podcast; Claer Barrett, Consumer Editor, The FT; Havana Marking, documentary maker; Nick Lowles, CEO Hope Not Hate; Andy Cohen, Host and Executive Producer, Real Housewives franchise; Francis Scarr, Russia specialist, 大象传媒 Monitoring; Daniel De Simone, Investigations Correspondent, 大象传媒 News

Presenter: Katie Razzall
Producer: Simon Richardson
Assistant Producer: Lucy Wai

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