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How to Invent a Country

BBC

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

  • 41 minutes 52 seconds
    China: imperial collapse

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

    13 May 2024, 12:03 pm
  • 41 minutes 47 seconds
    China - to kowtow or not to kowtow

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

    4 May 2024, 6:01 am
  • 44 minutes 20 seconds
    China - the first emperor

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

    3 May 2024, 9:04 am
  • 27 minutes 54 seconds
    Turkey - Ottoman or Turk

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

    20 November 2023, 2:00 pm
  • 38 minutes 43 seconds
    Turkey - A Delicate Balancing Act

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

    27 October 2023, 12:58 pm
  • 31 minutes 19 seconds
    Turkey - The Military and Decline

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

    27 October 2023, 11:44 am
  • 33 minutes 27 seconds
    Turkey - The Ottomans: East or West

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

    27 October 2023, 10:15 am
  • 32 minutes 4 seconds
    Russia - A Tale of Two Ivans

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

    9 January 2023, 11:29 am
  • 43 minutes 36 seconds
    Russia - the Empire Strikes Back

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

    9 January 2023, 11:29 am
  • 43 minutes 29 seconds
    Russia - the bear moves west

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

    9 January 2023, 11:29 am
  • 32 minutes 20 seconds
    Russia - the sacred song of war

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

    9 January 2023, 11:29 am
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