How to Invent a Country Episodes Episode guide
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The Birth of Bangladesh
Bangladesh was born in 1971.
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The Alps - Did the English invent skiing?
Misha Glenny on the early alpine visitors who were either very ill, or very rich.
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The Alps - and why Switzerland exists
Natural borders vs mountain borders
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The Alps - an icy row of teeth
How the Alps divide Europe in two
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Taiwan
They look so sturdy on the map, but what is a country and when do they take shape?
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Scandinavia - The Viking Inheritance
The Swedish Baltic Empire ... why it's not all Abba and social democracy with the Swedes
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Scandinavia - the narcissism of small differences
Ep3 Norway and fish, followed by oil
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Scandinavia - The Bridge
Ep 1 "Danes talk about Swedes all the time. Swedes don't talk about Danes so much."
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Russia - the sacred song of war
Ep 4 - The Invention of Russia, presented by Misha Glenny and produced by Miles Warde
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Russia - the Empire Strikes Back
Ep 2 - The Invention of Russia and the expansion east to Siberia, west into Ukraine
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Russia - the bear moves west
Ep 3 - The Invention of Russia and Catherine the Great, presented by Misha Glenny
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Russia - A Tale of Two Ivans
Ep 1 The Invention of Russia ... told from a time when it was still very small
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Return to Spain
with Sir John Eliot, plus exciting news
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Poland - Stalin on one side, Hitler to the left
Ep 3 - Poland reborn and invaded again. Misha Glenny presents, Miles Warde holds the mic.
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Poland - Obliterated from the map
Ep 1 - how Europe's largest state was sliced and diced by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
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Poland - a nation without a state
EP 2 - Misha Glenny on Poland's 123 year absence from the map, produced by Miles Warde
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Le petit Napoleon
The Invention of France #3
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Joan of Arc and England's role in defining France
The Invention of France #1
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Italy - Garibaldi's Grand Scheme #2
Are we Italian or not? With Leoluca Orlando, Lucy Riall, Tim Parks, Lucy Hughes-Hallett.
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Italy - Garibaldi's Grand Scheme #1
Back to Italy with guerrilla numero uno
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Ireland - we used the word pagan as kids!
Fintan O'Toole talks to Misha Glenny about Catholics, Protestants, and Top of the Pops
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Ireland - plantation and conflict
Dr Joan Redmond talks to Misha Glenny about Ireland, England and the early seeds of war
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Ireland - escalation!
"The thing about the border - we've lived it. It doesn't feel like history to us."
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Hungary and Mohacs 500
How does Viktor Orban blend Hungarian history and politics to stay in power?
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Germany - The Rise of Prussia
Misha Glenny on the rise of Prussia under Frederick the Great
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Germany - Germany Unified
Bismarck, Prussia ... and just how big will Germany be? Produced by Miles Warde
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Germany - A Hotly Contested Piece of Real Estate
Misha Glenny with a new history of Germany before the Nazis and two world wars
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China: The Life and Times of Chairman Mao
The Long March, the Civil War, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution
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China: imperial collapse
The end of the Qing and the troubled birth of the republic under Dr Sun Yat-sen
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China - to kowtow or not to kowtow
Find out how the world's greatest civilisation found itself dragged into two opium wars