Episodes
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
Back to Italy with guerrilla numero uno
Published 01/07/19
Misha Glenny on the early alpine visitors who were either very ill, or very rich.
Published 12/20/18
Natural borders vs mountain borders
Published 12/04/18
How the Alps divide Europe in two
Published 11/24/18
The Invention of France #3
Published 11/15/18
The Invention of France #2
Published 11/06/18
The Invention of France #1
Published 10/18/18
Getulio Vargas, inventor of Brazil?
Published 10/03/18
Independence or death!
Published 09/21/18
I came by boat
Published 09/14/18
A sense of disaster
Published 09/05/18
The heroic last stand
Published 08/24/18
What is Catalonia? What's Castille?
Published 08/17/18
Big appetite, bad teeth
Published 08/09/18
The man in the red cape
Published 08/03/18
A less than sturdy boot
Published 07/24/18
The end of the dynasty
Published 07/16/18
King of Spain, Archduke of Austria, Holy Roman Emperor - where did it all go wrong?
Published 07/09/18
How did a small family from Switzerland become Europe's greatest dynasty?
Published 07/03/18
There is a faultline in Europe, from the North Sea to the Alps. Belgium sits halfway.
Published 06/25/18
How Amsterdam became one of the world's leading cities in a few short decades
Published 06/18/18
How did a few boggy provinces become one of the trading heavyweights of the world?
Published 06/08/18
Misha Glenny on the people came to America, and the people who were there first
Published 06/04/18