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The Invention Of...

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About this podcast

Misha Glenny investigates the borders, the histories and the people that make different nations what they are.

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The Balkans: The Birth and Death of Yugoslavia

Apr 17, 202645m0

Misha Glenny returns to the Balkans to report on the birth and death of Yugoslavia. With contributions from Lea Ypi, Radina Vucetic, Ivan Veyvoda, Tim Heneage, Jelena Dureinovic, plus former soldier turned writer Faruk S

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The Balkans: Episode 2

Apr 17, 202641m0

Churchill may have said that the Balkans produce more history than it can consume, but in this episode Misha Glenny and Miles Warde head out to discover if it's true. This is a road trip through Bosnia, Belgrade and nort

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The Balkans: What Are the Balkans?

Apr 3, 202641m0

June 28 1914 - a young Bosnian on a street corner in Sarajevo fired a shot that triggered World War One. Why is this region so unstable, and what lessons can we learn from that event. Misha Glenny was a famous reporter d

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Hungary: Two World Wars and One Failed Revolution

Jul 3, 202541m0

It's easy to forget how entwined Hungary has been in some of the worst events of the last 100 years – losers in the first world war, the country initially sided with the Nazis in the second, tried to change its mind, was

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Hungary: The Butcher and the Poet

Jul 2, 202541m0

"Brussels is abusing its power," said Victor Orban, "just as Vienna once did." The date, March 15 2025 - this year - but the reference was to March 1848 when Hungary rose up against its Austrian overlords, a great moment

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Hungary: Hungary and Mohacs 500

Jun 23, 202546m0

Misha Glenny and producer Miles Warde travel from Vienna to Budapest and beyond to find out how Hungarian hardman Viktor Orban stays in power. With an election coming up next year, now seemed a good time to find out how

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Taiwan

Sep 12, 202429m0

At the beginning of this year the president of the Chinese People's Republic, Xi Jinping, claimed that people living on both sides of the Taiwan Straits should reunite "and share in the glory of the rejuvenation of the C

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China: The Life and Times of Chairman Mao

May 24, 202441m0

Misha Glenny and Miles Warde travel east to tell the story of China - what it is and where it came from. "Twentieth century China is the most extraordinary place, and Mao is at the heart of nearly all of it." With the he

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China: Imperial Collapse

May 13, 202441m0

"You could do a whole programme on why you shouldn't build a capital in Beijing. It's a Mongolian camel camp." Paul French Beijing means capital of the north, and was first used by the Ming to distinguish it from Nanjng,

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China: To Kowtow or Not Kowtow

May 4, 202441m0

Britain was late in its contacts with China and the Qing dynasty - the Portuguese, the Dutch and the Spanish had all headed east long before Lord McCartney's embassy tried to establish a formal relationship in 1792/3. Al

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China: The First Emperor

May 3, 202444m0

Misha Glenny and Miles Warde travel east to tell the story of China - what it is and where it came from. "The empire long united must divide, long divided must unite. Thus it has ever been." The opening lines of a fourte

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Turkey: Ottoman or Turk

Nov 20, 202327m0

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

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Turkey: A Balancing Act

Oct 27, 202338m0

Misha Glenny and Miles Warde take a ride over the Bosphorus to see the old Hyderpasha railway station - the Asian bulkhead of the Berlin to Baghdad railway which opened in 1909. The Ottoman alliance with Germany had impl

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Turkey: The Military

Oct 27, 202331m0

On September 12 1683, an army led by Kara Mustafa Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman empire, lined up on a hill just outside Vienna. The Ottomans had been besieging the city for almost two months. This wasn’t the first t

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Turkey: The Ottomans: East or West

Oct 27, 202333m0

When Mehmet the Conqueror arrived in Constantinople, now Istanbul, he turned the main cathedral into a mosque and threatened to move much further west. Christian Europe was terrified. Misha Glenny travels to Istanbul to

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Russia: The Sacred Song of War

Jan 9, 202332m0

Misha Glenny's final programme on Russia looks at the country's attitude to war, and in particular the great patriotic wars against Adolf Hitler and Napoleon Bonaparte. With contributions from Antony Beevor, author of St

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Russia: Catherine the Great and the Question of Europe

Jan 9, 202343m0

The extraordinary tale of how a small fortressed city became the centre of the largest contiguous landmass in the world, presented by Misha Glenny. It was Peter the Great who created a new capital on the Baltic, and Cath

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Russia: The Empire Strikes Back

Jan 9, 202343m0

Russia's empire was not like that of Britain or France. It was built by expanding across the land, so much more like the United States of America. Presenter Misha Glenny speaks to James Hill of the New York Times about t

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Russia: A Tale of Two Ivans

Jan 9, 202332m0

Countries look so cohesive on the map - sturdy borders, familiar shapes. Don't be misled; they didn't always look like this. This is the story of Russia, biggest contiguous country on the planet, told from the time when

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Return to Spain

Jan 6, 202321m0

With Sir John Eliot, plus exciting news.

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