Episodes
A bonus episode with Hannah Lucinda Smith, Christopher de Bellaigue and Misha Glenny
Published 11/20/23
Published 11/20/23
Ep 3 - How the republic of Turkey emerged from the ruins of World War One
Published 10/27/23
EP 2 - The Invention of Turkey and slow decline of the empire from the siege of Vienna
Published 10/27/23
Ep1 - Istanbul and Mehmet the Conqueror. Misha Glenny on the birth of the Ottoman empire
Published 10/27/23
Ep 1 The Invention of Russia ... told from a time when it was still very small
Published 01/09/23
Ep 2 - The Invention of Russia and the expansion east to Siberia, west into Ukraine
Published 01/09/23
Ep 3 - The Invention of Russia and Catherine the Great, presented by Misha Glenny
Published 01/09/23
Ep 4 - The Invention of Russia, presented by Misha Glenny and produced by Miles Warde
Published 01/09/23
with Sir John Eliot, plus exciting news
Published 01/06/23
Ep 3 - Poland reborn and invaded again. Misha Glenny presents, Miles Warde holds the mic.
Published 04/08/22
EP 2 - Misha Glenny on Poland's 123 year absence from the map, produced by Miles Warde
Published 03/28/22
Ep 1 - how Europe's largest state was sliced and diced by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
Published 03/28/22
Bangladesh was born in 1971.
Published 05/17/21
Ep3 Norway and fish, followed by oil
Published 11/24/20
The Swedish Baltic Empire ... why it's not all Abba and social democracy with the Swedes
Published 11/17/20
Ep 1 "Danes talk about Swedes all the time. Swedes don't talk about Danes so much."
Published 11/10/20
"The thing about the border - we've lived it. It doesn't feel like history to us."
Published 10/01/19
Dr Joan Redmond talks to Misha Glenny about Ireland, England and the early seeds of war
Published 09/19/19
Fintan O'Toole talks to Misha Glenny about Catholics, Protestants, and Top of the Pops
Published 09/09/19
Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales - why all these borders, and what do they mean?
Published 03/17/19
Insecurity - from Dover to Dublin, presented by Misha Glenny and produced by Miles Warde
Published 03/10/19
Anglocentrism .... or why Britons Never Will Be Slaves
Published 03/04/19
What is Britain? Who are the Scots, the Welsh, the Irish, the English?
Published 02/24/19
Are we Italian or not? With Leoluca Orlando, Lucy Riall, Tim Parks, Lucy Hughes-Hallett.
Published 01/07/19