How to Invent a Country

Misha Glenny asks how the losers of two world wars, which drastically reshaped Hungary's b... more

Misha Glenny and Miles Warde head to a rally in Budapest where Viktor Orban compares the E... more

McMafia author Misha Glenny and Miles Warde travel from Vienna to Budapest to find out how... more

At the beginning of 2024 the president of the Chinese People's Republic, Xi Jinping, claim... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

with Sir John Eliot, plus exciting news

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

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

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

Bangladesh was born in 1971.