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The Invention of Spain #3
The Invention of Brazil #1
I came by boat
The Invention of Brazil #2
Independence or death!
The Invention of Brazil #3
Getulio Vargas, inventor of Brazil?
Joan of Arc and England's role in defining France
The Invention of France #1
The Terror, the Terror
The Invention of France #2
Le petit Napoleon
The Invention of France #3
The Alps - an icy row of teeth
How the Alps divide Europe in two
The Alps - and why Switzerland exists
Natural borders vs mountain borders
The Alps - Did the English invent skiing?
Misha Glenny on the early alpine visitors who were either very ill, or very rich.
Italy - Garibaldi's Grand Scheme #1
Back to Italy with guerrilla numero uno
Italy - Garibaldi's Grand Scheme #2
Are we Italian or not? With Leoluca Orlando, Lucy Riall, Tim Parks, Lucy Hughes-Hallett.
The Invention of Britain #1- like quicksand for the uninitiated
What is Britain? Who are the Scots, the Welsh, the Irish, the English?
The Invention of Britain #2
Anglocentrism .... or why Britons Never Will Be Slaves
The Invention of Britain #3
Insecurity - from Dover to Dublin, presented by Misha Glenny and produced by Miles Warde
The Invention of Britain #4 - so many different little corners!
Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales - why all these borders, and what do they mean?
Ireland - we used the word pagan as kids!
Fintan O'Toole talks to Misha Glenny about Catholics, Protestants, and Top of the Pops
Ireland - plantation and conflict
Dr Joan Redmond talks to Misha Glenny about Ireland, England and the early seeds of war
Scandinavia - The Bridge
Ep 1 "Danes talk about Swedes all the time. Swedes don't talk about Danes so much."
Ireland - escalation!
"The thing about the border - we've lived it. It doesn't feel like history to us."
Scandinavia - The Viking Inheritance
The Swedish Baltic Empire ... why it's not all Abba and social democracy with the Swedes
Scandinavia - the narcissism of small differences
Ep3 Norway and fish, followed by oil
The Birth of Bangladesh
Bangladesh was born in 1971.
Poland - Obliterated from the map
Ep 1 - how Europe's largest state was sliced and diced by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
Poland - a nation without a state
EP 2 - Misha Glenny on Poland's 123 year absence from the map, produced by Miles Warde
Poland - Stalin on one side, Hitler to the left
Ep 3 - Poland reborn and invaded again. Misha Glenny presents, Miles Warde holds the mic.
Return to Spain
with Sir John Eliot, plus exciting news
Russia - the sacred song of war
Ep 4 - The Invention of Russia, presented by Misha Glenny and produced by Miles Warde
Russia - A Tale of Two Ivans
Ep 1 The Invention of Russia ... told from a time when it was still very small
Russia - the Empire Strikes Back
Ep 2 - The Invention of Russia and the expansion east to Siberia, west into Ukraine
Russia - the bear moves west
Ep 3 - The Invention of Russia and Catherine the Great, presented by Misha Glenny