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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

Ireland - we used the word pagan as kids!

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

• 24 mins

Ireland - plantation and conflict

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

• 18 mins

Scandinavia - The Bridge

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

• 35 mins

Ireland - escalation!

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

• 16 mins

Scandinavia - The Viking Inheritance

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

• 33 mins

Scandinavia - the narcissism of small differences

Ep3 Norway and fish, followed by oil

• 29 mins

The Birth of Bangladesh

Bangladesh was born in 1971.

• 29 mins

Poland - Obliterated from the map

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

• 31 mins

Poland - a nation without a state

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

• 30 mins

Poland - Stalin on one side, Hitler to the left

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

• 35 mins

Return to Spain

with Sir John Eliot, plus exciting news

• 21 mins

Russia - the sacred song of war

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

• 32 mins

Russia - A Tale of Two Ivans

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

• 32 mins

Russia - the Empire Strikes Back

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

• 43 mins