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The USA - It'll Never Work!

Misha Glenny on the invention of the most powerful country in the world

• 27 mins

The USA - The Borderlands

To invent a country you have to define a country. Misha Glenny on the borders of the USA.

• 32 mins

The USA - The Melting Pot

Misha Glenny on the people came to America, and the people who were there first

• 30 mins

The Netherlands - Orange Fever

How did a few boggy provinces become one of the trading heavyweights of the world?

• 27 mins

The Netherlands - The Dutch Golden Age

How Amsterdam became one of the world's leading cities in a few short decades

• 29 mins

The Netherlands - Why Belgium?

There is a faultline in Europe, from the North Sea to the Alps. Belgium sits halfway.

• 28 mins

The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Habsburgs #1

How did a small family from Switzerland become Europe's greatest dynasty?

• 28 mins

The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Habsburgs #2

King of Spain, Archduke of Austria, Holy Roman Emperor - where did it all go wrong?

• 27 mins

The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Habsburgs #3

The end of the dynasty

• 27 mins

The Invention of Italy #1

A less than sturdy boot

• 29 mins

The Invention of Italy #2

The man in the red cape

• 27 mins

The Invention of Italy #3

Big appetite, bad teeth

• 28 mins

The Invention of Spain #1

What is Catalonia? What's Castille?

• 28 mins

The Invention of Spain #2

The heroic last stand

• 28 mins

The Invention of Spain #3

A sense of disaster

• 27 mins

The Invention of Brazil #1

I came by boat

• 27 mins

The Invention of Brazil #2

Independence or death!

• 29 mins

The Invention of Brazil #3

Getulio Vargas, inventor of Brazil?

• 28 mins

Joan of Arc and England's role in defining France

The Invention of France #1

• 26 mins

The Terror, the Terror

The Invention of France #2

• 29 mins

Le petit Napoleon

The Invention of France #3

• 29 mins

The Alps - an icy row of teeth

How the Alps divide Europe in two

• 27 mins

The Alps - and why Switzerland exists

Natural borders vs mountain borders

• 25 mins

The Alps - Did the English invent skiing?

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

• 29 mins

Italy - Garibaldi's Grand Scheme #1

Back to Italy with guerrilla numero uno

• 28 mins

Italy - Garibaldi's Grand Scheme #2

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

• 28 mins

The Invention of Britain #1- like quicksand for the uninitiated

What is Britain? Who are the Scots, the Welsh, the Irish, the English?

• 30 mins

The Invention of Britain #2

Anglocentrism .... or why Britons Never Will Be Slaves

• 31 mins

The Invention of Britain #3

Insecurity - from Dover to Dublin, presented by Misha Glenny and produced by Miles Warde

• 30 mins

The Invention of Britain #4 - so many different little corners!

Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales - why all these borders, and what do they mean?

• 33 mins