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How to Invent a Country Episodes

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    The Butcher And The Poet

    In 1848 a poet in a coffee shop set off a revolution that still reverberates today

  2. The Birth of Bangladesh

    Bangladesh was born in 1971.

  3. The birth and death of Yugoslavia

    The 74 year story of a country that fell in a terrible war by the reporter who was there

  4. The Alps - Did the English invent skiing?

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

  5. The Alps - and why Switzerland exists

    Natural borders vs mountain borders

  6. The Alps - an icy row of teeth

    How the Alps divide Europe in two

  7. Taiwan

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

  8. Scandinavia - The Viking Inheritance

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

  9. Scandinavia - the narcissism of small differences

    Ep3 Norway and fish, followed by oil

  10. Scandinavia - The Bridge

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

  11. Russia - the sacred song of war

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

  12. Russia - the Empire Strikes Back

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

  13. Russia - the bear moves west

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

  14. Russia - A Tale of Two Ivans

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

  15. Return to Spain

    with Sir John Eliot, plus exciting news

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

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

  17. Poland - Obliterated from the map

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

  18. Poland - a nation without a state

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

  19. More history than you can consume!

    Misha Glenny + Miles Warde on a journey through the Balkans - was Churchill's quote true?

  20. Le petit Napoleon

    The Invention of France #3

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

    The Invention of France #1

  22. Italy - Garibaldi's Grand Scheme #2

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

  23. Italy - Garibaldi's Grand Scheme #1

    Back to Italy with guerrilla numero uno

  24. Ireland: Plantation and Conflict

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

  25. Ireland: Escalation

    Declan Lawn talks to Micha Glenny about the differences between the north and the south.

  26. Ireland: Catholics and Protestants

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

  27. Hungary and Mohacs 500

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

  28. Germany - The Rise of Prussia

    Misha Glenny on the rise of Prussia under Frederick the Great

  29. Germany - Germany Unified

    Bismarck, Prussia ... and just how big will Germany be?

  30. 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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