How to Invent a Country
When did countries become countries? Misha Glenny on the borders, the stories and the people of countries worldwide.
Episodes
Misha Glenny asks how the losers of two world wars, which drastically reshaped Hungary's borders, tried to fight off Soviet tanks on Budapest's streets. Produced by Miles Warde
Misha Glenny and Miles Warde head to a rally in Budapest where Viktor Orban compares the EU to the Habsburgs, forgetting it was tsarist Russia that crushed the revolution of 1848
McMafia author Misha Glenny and Miles Warde travel from Vienna to Budapest to find out how Hungarian hardman Viktor Orban uses history beginning with the battle of Mohacs of 1526
At the beginning of 2024 the president of the Chinese People's Republic, Xi Jinping, claimed people living on both sides of the Taiwan Straits should reunite "and share in the glory of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation". But is Taiwan really part of China, and could this question lead to war? Misha Glenny and producer Miles Warde have been to the capital Taipei and Tainan City in the south to find out about this relationship w...
The Long March, the Civil War, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution
The end of the Qing and the troubled birth of the republic under Dr Sun Yat-sen
Find out how the world's greatest civilisation found itself dragged into two opium wars
Misha Glenny and Miles Warde head east to find out what is China and where it came from?
A bonus episode with Hannah Lucinda Smith, Christopher de Bellaigue and Misha Glenny
Ep 3 - How the republic of Turkey emerged from the ruins of World War One
EP 2 - The Invention of Turkey and slow decline of the empire from the siege of Vienna
Ep1 - Istanbul and Mehmet the Conqueror. Misha Glenny on the birth of the Ottoman empire
Ep 4 - The Invention of Russia, presented by Misha Glenny and produced by Miles Warde
Ep 1 The Invention of Russia ... told from a time when it was still very small
Ep 3 - The Invention of Russia and Catherine the Great, presented by Misha Glenny
Ep 2 - The Invention of Russia and the expansion east to Siberia, west into Ukraine
Ep 3 - Poland reborn and invaded again. Misha Glenny presents, Miles Warde holds the mic.
EP 2 - Misha Glenny on Poland's 123 year absence from the map, produced by Miles Warde
Ep 1 - how Europe's largest state was sliced and diced by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
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