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The birth and death of Yugoslavia
Apr 17, 2026
45m 24s
More history than you can consume!
Apr 17, 2026
41m 50s
What are the Balkans?
Apr 3, 2026
41m 34s
Two World Wars, One Failed Revolution
Jul 3, 2025
41m 43s
The Butcher And The Poet
Jul 2, 2025
41m 47s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 4/17/26 | The birth and death of Yugoslavia | Misha Glenny talks to contributors from Bosnia and Belgrade and Albania too about the history of Yugoslavia from 1918 via Tito until now. Recorded and produced by Miles Warde | 45m 24s | ||||||
| 4/17/26 | More history than you can consume! | Misha Glenny + Miles Warde on a journey through the Balkans - was Churchill's quote true? | 41m 50s | ||||||
| 4/3/26 | What are the Balkans? | June 28 1914 - a young Bosnian in Sarajevo fired the shot that triggered World War One. Why is this region so unstable? Misha Glenny returns to a region he's known for years | 41m 34s | ||||||
| 7/3/25 | Two World Wars, One Failed Revolution | Misha Glenny asks how the losers of two world wars, which drastically reshaped Hungary's borders, tried to fight off Soviet tanks on Budapest's streets. Produced by Miles Warde | 41m 43s | ||||||
| 7/2/25 | The Butcher And The Poet | Misha Glenny and Miles Warde head to a rally in Budapest where Viktor Orban compares the EU to the Habsburgs, forgetting it was tsarist Russia that crushed the revolution of 1848 | 41m 47s | ||||||
| 6/23/25 | Hungary and Mohacs 500 | McMafia author Misha Glenny and Miles Warde travel from Vienna to Budapest to find out how Hungarian hardman Viktor Orban uses history beginning with the battle of Mohacs of 1526 | 46m 26s | ||||||
| 9/12/24 | Taiwan | At the beginning of 2024 the president of the Chinese People's Republic, Xi Jinping, claimed people living on both sides of the Taiwan Straits should reunite "and share in the glory of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation". But is Taiwan really part of China, and could this question lead to war? Misha Glenny and producer Miles Warde have been to the capital Taipei and Tainan City in the south to find out about this relationship with the Chinese mainland."I've obviously been following the situation in Ukraine, and it strikes me that before our eyes we're seeing the rapid development of a new Ukrainian consciousness and national identity. What's struck me about coming here to Taiwan is the same process is underway." Misha GlennyContributors include Amanda Hsiao senior analyst of the Crisis Group, Linda Jaivin the author of the Shortest History of China, and Chris Buckley, Chief China correspondent for the New York Times now relocated to Taipei. Plus you'll hear from long time resident Chris Taylor, author of the Lonely Planet Guide to Tibet. "All Xi Jinping understands is complete control .... he's given up on what the Taiwanese call the silver bullet, promises of great trade opportunities and get rich, join us. Nobody's buying that. So the only way he's going to get it is by force of some kind."Taiwan is episode 57 of How to Invent a Country on BBC Sounds, the series that has previously travelled to Germany, Brazil, Turkey and Russia. Misha Glenny is a former Central Europe correspondent for the BBC and the author of McMafia. The producer for BBC Studios Audio in Bristol is Miles Warde. | 29m 55s | ||||||
| 5/24/24 | China: The Life and Times of Chairman Mao | The Long March, the Civil War, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution | 41m 36s | ||||||
| 5/13/24 | China: imperial collapse | The end of the Qing and the troubled birth of the republic under Dr Sun Yat-sen | 41m 52s | ||||||
| 5/4/24 | China - to kowtow or not to kowtow | Find out how the world's greatest civilisation found itself dragged into two opium wars | 41m 47s | ||||||
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| 5/3/24 | China - the first emperor | Misha Glenny and Miles Warde head east to find out what is China and where it came from? | 44m 20s | ||||||
| 11/20/23 | Turkey - Ottoman or Turk | A bonus episode with Hannah Lucinda Smith, Christopher de Bellaigue and Misha Glenny | 27m 54s | ||||||
| 10/27/23 | Turkey - A Delicate Balancing Act | Ep 3 - How the republic of Turkey emerged from the ruins of World War One | 38m 43s | ||||||
| 10/27/23 | Turkey - The Military and Decline | EP 2 - The Invention of Turkey and slow decline of the empire from the siege of Vienna | 31m 19s | ||||||
| 10/27/23 | Turkey - The Ottomans: East or West | Ep1 - Istanbul and Mehmet the Conqueror. Misha Glenny on the birth of the Ottoman empire | 33m 27s | ||||||
| 1/9/23 | Russia - the sacred song of war | Ep 4 - The Invention of Russia, presented by Misha Glenny and produced by Miles Warde | 32m 20s | ||||||
| 1/9/23 | Russia - the bear moves west | Ep 3 - The Invention of Russia and Catherine the Great, presented by Misha Glenny | 43m 29s | ||||||
| 1/9/23 | Russia - the Empire Strikes Back | Ep 2 - The Invention of Russia and the expansion east to Siberia, west into Ukraine | 43m 36s | ||||||
| 1/9/23 | Russia - A Tale of Two Ivans | Ep 1 The Invention of Russia ... told from a time when it was still very small | 32m 04s | ||||||
| 1/6/23 | Return to Spain | with Sir John Eliot, plus exciting news | 21m 38s | ||||||
| 4/8/22 | Poland - Stalin on one side, Hitler to the left | Ep 3 - Poland reborn and invaded again. Misha Glenny presents, Miles Warde holds the mic. | 35m 59s | ||||||
| 3/28/22 | Poland - a nation without a state | EP 2 - Misha Glenny on Poland's 123 year absence from the map, produced by Miles Warde | 30m 24s | ||||||
| 3/28/22 | Poland - Obliterated from the map | Ep 1 - how Europe's largest state was sliced and diced by Russia, Prussia and Austria. | 31m 56s | ||||||
| 5/17/21 | The Birth of Bangladesh | Bangladesh was born in 1971. | 29m 01s | ||||||
| 11/24/20 | Scandinavia - the narcissism of small differences | Ep3 Norway and fish, followed by oil | 29m 38s | ||||||
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