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Scandinavia - The Viking Inheritance

The Swedish Baltic Empire ... why it's not all Abba and social democracy with the Swedes

• 33 mins

Scandinavia - the narcissism of small differences

Ep3 Norway and fish, followed by oil

• 29 mins

The Birth of Bangladesh

Bangladesh was born in 1971.

• 29 mins

Poland - Obliterated from the map

Ep 1 - how Europe's largest state was sliced and diced by Russia, Prussia and Austria.

• 31 mins

Poland - a nation without a state

EP 2 - Misha Glenny on Poland's 123 year absence from the map, produced by Miles Warde

• 30 mins

Poland - Stalin on one side, Hitler to the left

Ep 3 - Poland reborn and invaded again. Misha Glenny presents, Miles Warde holds the mic.

• 35 mins

Return to Spain

with Sir John Eliot, plus exciting news

• 21 mins

Russia - the sacred song of war

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

• 32 mins

Russia - A Tale of Two Ivans

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

• 32 mins

Russia - the Empire Strikes Back

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

• 43 mins

Russia - the bear moves west

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

• 43 mins

Turkey - The Ottomans: East or West

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

• 33 mins

Turkey - The Military and Decline

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

• 31 mins

Turkey - A Delicate Balancing Act

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

• 38 mins

Turkey - Ottoman or Turk

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

• 27 mins

China - the first emperor

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

• 44 mins

China - to kowtow or not to kowtow

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

• 41 mins

China: imperial collapse

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

• 41 mins

China: The Life and Times of Chairman Mao

The Long March, the Civil War, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution

• 41 mins

How to Invent a Country: Taiwan

They look so sturdy on the map, but what is a country and when do they take shape?

• 29 mins