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When did countries become countries? Misha Glenny on the borders, the stories and the people of countries worldwide.
Misha Glenny talks to contributors from Bosnia and Belgrade and Albania too about the history of Yugoslavia from 1918 via Tito until now. Re...
Misha Glenny + Miles Warde on a journey through the Balkans - was Churchill's quote true?
June 28 1914 - a young Bosnian in Sarajevo fired the shot that triggered World War One. Why is this region so unstable? Misha Glenny returns...
Misha Glenny asks how the losers of two world wars, which drastically reshaped Hungary's borders, tried to fight off Soviet tanks on Budapes...
Misha Glenny and Miles Warde head to a rally in Budapest where Viktor Orban compares the EU to the Habsburgs, forgetting it was tsarist Russ...
McMafia author Misha Glenny and Miles Warde travel from Vienna to Budapest to find out how Hungarian hardman Viktor Orban uses history begin...
At the beginning of 2024 the president of the Chinese People's Republic, Xi Jinping, claimed people living on both sides of the Taiwan Strai...
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 1 The Invention of Russia ... told from a time when it was still very small
Ep 2 - The Invention of Russia and the expansion east to Siberia, west into Ukraine
Ep 3 - The Invention of Russia and Catherine the Great, presented by Misha Glenny
Ep 4 - The Invention of Russia, presented by Misha Glenny and produced by Miles Warde
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."
Declan Lawn talks to Micha Glenny about the differences between the north and the south and, in particular, the border.
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