How to Invent a Country

Sep 12 2024 58 ep. 8.5k

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When did countries become countries? Misha Glenny on the borders, the stories and the people of countries worldwide.

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How to Invent a Country: Taiwan

Sep 12 2024 29 mins

At the beginning of 2024 the president of the Chinese People's Republic, Xi Jinping, claimed people living on both sides of the Taiwan Straits should reunite "and share in the glory of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation". But is Taiwan really part of China, and could this question lead to war? Misha Glenny and producer Miles Warde have been to the capital Taipei and Tainan City

China: The Life and Times of Chairman Mao

May 23 2024 41 mins

The Long March, the Civil War, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution

China: imperial collapse

May 13 2024 41 mins

The end of the Qing and the troubled birth of the republic under Dr Sun Yat-sen

China - to kowtow or not to kowtow

May 03 2024 41 mins

Find out how the world's greatest civilisation found itself dragged into two opium wars

China - the first emperor

May 03 2024 44 mins

Misha Glenny and Miles Warde head east to find out what is China and where it came from?

Turkey - Ottoman or Turk

Nov 20 2023 27 mins

A bonus episode with Hannah Lucinda Smith, Christopher de Bellaigue and Misha Glenny

Turkey - A Delicate Balancing Act

Oct 27 2023 38 mins

Ep 3 - How the republic of Turkey emerged from the ruins of World War One

Turkey - The Military and Decline

Oct 27 2023 31 mins

EP 2 - The Invention of Turkey and slow decline of the empire from the siege of Vienna

Turkey - The Ottomans: East or West

Oct 27 2023 33 mins

Ep1 - Istanbul and Mehmet the Conqueror. Misha Glenny on the birth of the Ottoman empire

Russia - the sacred song of war

Jan 09 2023 32 mins

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