How to Invent a Country Episodes Available now
Two World Wars, One Failed Revolution
How Hungary grabbed the world's attention resisting the Soviets in 1956
The Butcher And The Poet
In 1848 a poet in a coffee shop set off a revolution that still reverberates today
Hungary and Mohacs 500
How does Viktor Orban blend Hungarian history and politics to stay in power?
Taiwan
They look so sturdy on the map, but what is a country and when do they take shape?
China: The Life and Times of Chairman Mao
The Long March, the Civil War, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution
China: imperial collapse
The end of the Qing and the troubled birth of the republic under Dr Sun Yat-sen
China - to kowtow or not to kowtow
Find out how the world's greatest civilisation found itself dragged into two opium wars
China - the first emperor
Misha Glenny and Miles Warde head east to find out what is China and where it came from?
Turkey - Ottoman or Turk
A bonus episode with Hannah Lucinda Smith, Christopher de Bellaigue and Misha Glenny
Turkey - A Delicate Balancing Act
Ep 3 - How the republic of Turkey emerged from the ruins of World War One
