55 episodes
How to Invent a Country BBC Radio 4
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- History
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When did countries become countries? Misha Glenny on the borders, the stories and the people of countries worldwide.
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China - to kowtow or not to kowtow
Find out how the world's greatest civilisation found itself dragged into two opium wars
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China - the first emperor
Misha Glenny and Miles Warde head east to find out what is China and where it came from?
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Turkey - Ottoman or Turk
A bonus episode with Hannah Lucinda Smith, Christopher de Bellaigue and Misha Glenny
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Turkey - A Delicate Balancing Act
Ep 3 - How the republic of Turkey emerged from the ruins of World War One
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Turkey - The Military and Decline
EP 2 - The Invention of Turkey and slow decline of the empire from the siege of Vienna
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Turkey - The Ottomans: East or West
Ep1 - Istanbul and Mehmet the Conqueror. Misha Glenny on the birth of the Ottoman empire