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When did countries become countries? Misha Glenny on the borders, the stories and the people of countries worldwide.
How to Invent a Country Podcast
English, Social, 1 season, 53 episodes, 1 day, 1 hour, 44 minutes
How to Invent a Country Podcast
English, Social, 1 season, 53 episodes, 1 day, 1 hour, 44 minutes
Turkey - Ottoman or Turk
A bonus episode with Hannah Lucinda Smith, Christopher de Bellaigue and Misha Glenny
11/20/2023 • 27 minutes, 54 seconds
Turkey - A Delicate Balancing Act
Ep 3 - How the republic of Turkey emerged from the ruins of World War One
10/27/2023 • 38 minutes, 43 seconds
Turkey - The Military and Decline
EP 2 - The Invention of Turkey and slow decline of the empire from the siege of Vienna
10/27/2023 • 31 minutes, 19 seconds
Turkey - The Ottomans: East or West
Ep1 - Istanbul and Mehmet the Conqueror. Misha Glenny on the birth of the Ottoman empire
10/27/2023 • 33 minutes, 27 seconds
Russia - the Empire Strikes Back
Ep 2 - The Invention of Russia and the expansion east to Siberia, west into Ukraine
1/9/2023 • 43 minutes, 36 seconds
Russia - the bear moves west
Ep 3 - The Invention of Russia and Catherine the Great, presented by Misha Glenny
1/9/2023 • 43 minutes, 29 seconds
Russia - the sacred song of war
Ep 4 - The Invention of Russia, presented by Misha Glenny and produced by Miles Warde
1/9/2023 • 32 minutes, 20 seconds
Russia - A Tale of Two Ivans
Ep 1 The Invention of Russia ... told from a time when it was still very small
1/9/2023 • 32 minutes, 4 seconds
Return to Spain
with Sir John Eliot, plus exciting news
1/6/2023 • 21 minutes, 38 seconds
Poland - Stalin on one side, Hitler to the left
Ep 3 - Poland reborn and invaded again. Misha Glenny presents, Miles Warde holds the mic.
4/8/2022 • 35 minutes, 59 seconds
Poland - a nation without a state
EP 2 - Misha Glenny on Poland's 123 year absence from the map, produced by Miles Warde
3/28/2022 • 30 minutes, 24 seconds
Poland - Obliterated from the map
Ep 1 - how Europe's largest state was sliced and diced by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
3/28/2022 • 31 minutes, 56 seconds
The Birth of Bangladesh
Bangladesh was born in 1971.
5/17/2021 • 29 minutes, 1 second
Scandinavia - the narcissism of small differences
Ep3 Norway and fish, followed by oil
11/24/2020 • 29 minutes, 38 seconds
Scandinavia - The Viking Inheritance
The Swedish Baltic Empire ... why it's not all Abba and social democracy with the Swedes
11/17/2020 • 33 minutes
Scandinavia - The Bridge
Ep 1 "Danes talk about Swedes all the time. Swedes don't talk about Danes so much."
11/10/2020 • 35 minutes, 56 seconds
Ireland - escalation!
"The thing about the border - we've lived it. It doesn't feel like history to us."
10/1/2019 • 16 minutes, 37 seconds
Ireland - plantation and conflict
Dr Joan Redmond talks to Misha Glenny about Ireland, England and the early seeds of war
9/19/2019 • 18 minutes, 1 second
Ireland - we used the word pagan as kids!
Fintan O'Toole talks to Misha Glenny about Catholics, Protestants, and Top of the Pops
9/9/2019 • 24 minutes, 41 seconds
The Invention of Britain #4 - so many different little corners!
Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales - why all these borders, and what do they mean?
3/17/2019 • 33 minutes, 49 seconds
The Invention of Britain #3
Insecurity - from Dover to Dublin, presented by Misha Glenny and produced by Miles Warde
3/10/2019 • 30 minutes, 38 seconds
The Invention of Britain #2
Anglocentrism .... or why Britons Never Will Be Slaves
3/4/2019 • 31 minutes, 11 seconds
The Invention of Britain #1- like quicksand for the uninitiated
What is Britain? Who are the Scots, the Welsh, the Irish, the English?
2/24/2019 • 30 minutes, 6 seconds
Italy - Garibaldi's Grand Scheme #2
Are we Italian or not? With Leoluca Orlando, Lucy Riall, Tim Parks, Lucy Hughes-Hallett.
1/7/2019 • 28 minutes, 5 seconds
Italy - Garibaldi's Grand Scheme #1
Back to Italy with guerrilla numero uno
1/7/2019 • 28 minutes, 5 seconds
The Alps - Did the English invent skiing?
Misha Glenny on the early alpine visitors who were either very ill, or very rich.
12/20/2018 • 29 minutes, 51 seconds
The Alps - and why Switzerland exists
Natural borders vs mountain borders
12/4/2018 • 25 minutes, 31 seconds
The Alps - an icy row of teeth
How the Alps divide Europe in two
11/24/2018 • 27 minutes, 32 seconds
Le petit Napoleon
The Invention of France #3
11/15/2018 • 29 minutes, 9 seconds
The Terror, the Terror
The Invention of France #2
11/6/2018 • 29 minutes, 19 seconds
Joan of Arc and England's role in defining France
The Invention of France #1
10/18/2018 • 26 minutes, 51 seconds
The Invention of Brazil #3
Getulio Vargas, inventor of Brazil?
10/3/2018 • 28 minutes, 15 seconds
The Invention of Brazil #2
Independence or death!
9/21/2018 • 29 minutes, 44 seconds
The Invention of Brazil #1
I came by boat
9/14/2018 • 27 minutes, 41 seconds
The Invention of Spain #3
A sense of disaster
9/5/2018 • 27 minutes, 34 seconds
The Invention of Spain #2
The heroic last stand
8/24/2018 • 28 minutes, 22 seconds
The Invention of Spain #1
What is Catalonia? What's Castille?
8/17/2018 • 28 minutes, 49 seconds
The Invention of Italy #3
Big appetite, bad teeth
8/9/2018 • 28 minutes, 11 seconds
The Invention of Italy #2
The man in the red cape
8/3/2018 • 27 minutes, 46 seconds
The Invention of Italy #1
A less than sturdy boot
7/24/2018 • 29 minutes, 19 seconds
The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Habsburgs #3
The end of the dynasty
7/16/2018 • 27 minutes, 21 seconds
The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Habsburgs #2
King of Spain, Archduke of Austria, Holy Roman Emperor - where did it all go wrong?
7/9/2018 • 27 minutes, 48 seconds
The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Habsburgs #1
How did a small family from Switzerland become Europe's greatest dynasty?
7/3/2018 • 28 minutes, 5 seconds
The Netherlands - Why Belgium?
There is a faultline in Europe, from the North Sea to the Alps. Belgium sits halfway.
6/25/2018 • 28 minutes, 46 seconds
The Netherlands - The Dutch Golden Age
How Amsterdam became one of the world's leading cities in a few short decades
6/18/2018 • 29 minutes, 52 seconds
The Netherlands - Orange Fever
How did a few boggy provinces become one of the trading heavyweights of the world?
6/8/2018 • 27 minutes, 37 seconds
The USA - The Melting Pot
Misha Glenny on the people came to America, and the people who were there first
6/4/2018 • 30 minutes, 42 seconds
The USA - The Borderlands
To invent a country you have to define a country. Misha Glenny on the borders of the USA.
6/4/2018 • 32 minutes, 47 seconds
The USA - It'll Never Work!
Misha Glenny on the invention of the most powerful country in the world
6/4/2018 • 27 minutes, 44 seconds
Germany - Germany Unified
Bismarck, Prussia ... and just how big will Germany be? Produced by Miles Warde
6/4/2018 • 28 minutes, 21 seconds
Germany - The Rise of Prussia
Misha Glenny on how a sandy backwater called Prussia began to change the shape and size of Germany
5/29/2018 • 28 minutes, 43 seconds
Germany - A Hotly Contested Piece of Real Estate
Misha Glenny presents a new history of Germany before the Nazis and two world wars, when this region was the stomping ground for foreign invaders
5/29/2018 • 29 minutes, 36 seconds
Welcome to How to Invent a Country
When did countries become countries? Misha Glenny on the borders, the stories and the people of countries worldwide.
5/24/2018 • 1 minute, 19 seconds