Dateline Warsaw – 'Tape Affair' crisis

Welcome to Dateline Warsaw with Peter Gentle where journalists chew over this week’s top news stories.

In the studio: the UK Daily Telegraph’s central and eastern European correspondent Matthew Day and freelance journalist Aleksander Nowacki.

In this week's show: the 'tape affair' crisis, the biggest political scandal in years in Poland, which has been making headlines worldwide.

The Wprost magazine has been publishing exerts and transcripts of tapes of politicians and officials having conversations over dinner at expensive restaurants in Warsaw. The contents of the tapes have been embarrassing for the government, as they reveal often foul mouthed tirades over the dinner table by politicians and a central bank governor.

The opposition has called for the government to resign and PM Donald Tusk has also threatened to go to the country, while defending his ministers by saying that he would not be dictated to by a criminal group that has been secretly taping the conversations of top officials for around a year and a half.

Who has been secretly recording some of Poland's top politicians and will the government survive the crisis?