How to Invent a Country

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 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 1 The Invention of Russia ... told from a time when it was still very small

with Sir John Eliot, plus exciting news

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.

Bangladesh was born in 1971.

Ep3 Norway and fish, followed by oil

The Swedish Baltic Empire ... why it's not all Abba and social democracy with the Swedes

Ep 1 "Danes talk about Swedes all the time. Swedes don't talk about Danes so much."

"The thing about the border - we've lived it. It doesn't feel like history to us."

Dr Joan Redmond talks to Misha Glenny about Ireland, England and the early seeds of war

Fintan O'Toole talks to Misha Glenny about Catholics, Protestants, and Top of the Pops

Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales - why all these borders, and what do they mean?

Insecurity - from Dover to Dublin, presented by Misha Glenny and produced by Miles Warde

Anglocentrism .... or why Britons Never Will Be Slaves

What is Britain? Who are the Scots, the Welsh, the Irish, the English?

Are we Italian or not? With Leoluca Orlando, Lucy Riall, Tim Parks, Lucy Hughes-Hallett.

Back to Italy with guerrilla numero uno

Misha Glenny on the early alpine visitors who were either very ill, or very rich.

Natural borders vs mountain borders

How the Alps divide Europe in two

The Invention of France #3

The Invention of France #2

The Invention of France #1

Getulio Vargas, inventor of Brazil?

Independence or death!

I came by boat

A sense of disaster

The heroic last stand

What is Catalonia? What's Castille?

Big appetite, bad teeth

The man in the red cape

A less than sturdy boot

The end of the dynasty

King of Spain, Archduke of Austria, Holy Roman Emperor - where did it all go wrong?

How did a small family from Switzerland become Europe's greatest dynasty?

There is a faultline in Europe, from the North Sea to the Alps. Belgium sits halfway.

How Amsterdam became one of the world's leading cities in a few short decades

How did a few boggy provinces become one of the trading heavyweights of the world?

Misha Glenny on the people came to America, and the people who were there first

To invent a country you have to define a country. Misha Glenny on the borders of the USA.

Misha Glenny on the invention of the most powerful country in the world

Bismarck, Prussia ... and just how big will Germany be? Produced by Miles Warde