How to Invent a Country
When did countries become countries? Misha Glenny on the borders, the stories and the people of countries worldwide.
Latest episodes
Jan 9, 2023 • 44min
Russia - the Empire Strikes Back
Ep 2 - The Invention of Russia and the expansion east to Siberia, west into Ukraine
Jan 9, 2023 • 43min
Russia - the bear moves west
Ep 3 - The Invention of Russia and Catherine the Great, presented by Misha Glenny
Jan 9, 2023 • 32min
Russia - A Tale of Two Ivans
Ep 1 The Invention of Russia ... told from a time when it was still very small
Jan 6, 2023 • 22min
Return to Spain
with Sir John Eliot, plus exciting news
Apr 8, 2022 • 36min
Poland - Stalin on one side, Hitler to the left
Ep 3 - Poland reborn and invaded again. Misha Glenny presents, Miles Warde holds the mic.
Mar 28, 2022 • 30min
Poland - a nation without a state
EP 2 - Misha Glenny on Poland's 123 year absence from the map, produced by Miles Warde
Mar 28, 2022 • 32min
Poland - Obliterated from the map
Ep 1 - how Europe's largest state was sliced and diced by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
May 17, 2021 • 29min
The Birth of Bangladesh
Bangladesh was born in 1971.
Nov 24, 2020 • 30min
Scandinavia - the narcissism of small differences
Ep3 Norway and fish, followed by oil
Nov 17, 2020 • 33min
Scandinavia - The Viking Inheritance
The Swedish Baltic Empire ... why it's not all Abba and social democracy with the Swedes
