Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson,

the past brought to life by those who were there.

This week the early rise of Hungary's Victor Orban, right of centre Prime Minister now, but back in the 80s he was a radical liberal.

Hungary took the lead because we fought for an unlimited election and unlimited transition from dictatorship to democracy.

And this was the first attempt in this region.

Plus, the Nazi war criminal living a life of luxury in the Netherlands until his exposure in the 1970s and Mexico's

startling Aztec past accidentally revealed in 1978. I went to the site and saw it for the first time. I was totally amazed.

That's all coming up later in the podcast. But we begin with an issue which has been a touchstone for argument among parents in the developed

world for the past 20 years.

Everyone wants to do the best for his or her children, right?

But what if the official information about what is the right thing to do is challenged?

Well, back in 1998, the published findings of one doctor persuaded millions of parents not to

immunize their children against a group of potentially deadly diseases.

That doctor was Andrew Wakefield and he suggested that the MMR vaccine, supposed to protect children

from measles, mumps and rubella, might cause autism.

Claire Bowes has been speaking to the journalist whose investigations finally led to Dr Wakefield

being struck off the medical register in Britain.

This mum knows what the once-common childhood illness measles can do.

Most people think of measles as a rash and a week off of skull. It's not quite that simple.

In 2002, her son contracted measles and keffelitis,

a rare but dangerous form of the disease.

Matthew got up a quarter to five one morning to go to the toilet.

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