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How to Invent a Country Episodes

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    The Birth of Bangladesh

    Bangladesh was born in 1971.

  2. The Alps - Did the English invent skiing?

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

  3. The Alps - and why Switzerland exists

    Natural borders vs mountain borders

  4. The Alps - an icy row of teeth

    How the Alps divide Europe in two

  5. Taiwan

    They look so sturdy on the map, but what is a country and when do they take shape?

  6. Scandinavia - The Viking Inheritance

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

  7. Scandinavia - the narcissism of small differences

    Ep3 Norway and fish, followed by oil

  8. Scandinavia - The Bridge

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

  9. Russia - the sacred song of war

    Ep 4 - The Invention of Russia, presented by Misha Glenny and produced by Miles Warde

  10. Russia - the Empire Strikes Back

    Ep 2 - The Invention of Russia and the expansion east to Siberia, west into Ukraine

  11. Russia - the bear moves west

    Ep 3 - The Invention of Russia and Catherine the Great, presented by Misha Glenny

  12. Russia - A Tale of Two Ivans

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

  13. Return to Spain

    with Sir John Eliot, plus exciting news

  14. Poland - Stalin on one side, Hitler to the left

    Ep 3 - Poland reborn and invaded again. Misha Glenny presents, Miles Warde holds the mic.

  15. Poland - Obliterated from the map

    Ep 1 - how Europe's largest state was sliced and diced by Russia, Prussia and Austria.

  16. Poland - a nation without a state

    EP 2 - Misha Glenny on Poland's 123 year absence from the map, produced by Miles Warde

  17. Le petit Napoleon

    The Invention of France #3

  18. Joan of Arc and England's role in defining France

    The Invention of France #1

  19. Italy - Garibaldi's Grand Scheme #2

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

  20. Italy - Garibaldi's Grand Scheme #1

    Back to Italy with guerrilla numero uno

  21. Ireland - we used the word pagan as kids!

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

  22. Ireland - plantation and conflict

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

  23. Ireland - escalation!

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

  24. Hungary and Mohacs 500

    How does Viktor Orban blend Hungarian history and politics to stay in power?

  25. Germany - The Rise of Prussia

    Misha Glenny on the rise of Prussia under Frederick the Great

  26. Germany - Germany Unified

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

  27. Germany - A Hotly Contested Piece of Real Estate

    Misha Glenny with a new history of Germany before the Nazis and two world wars

  28. China: The Life and Times of Chairman Mao

    The Long March, the Civil War, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution

  29. China: imperial collapse

    The end of the Qing and the troubled birth of the republic under Dr Sun Yat-sen

  30. China - to kowtow or not to kowtow

    Find out how the world's greatest civilisation found itself dragged into two opium wars

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