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  1. Two World Wars, One Failed Revolution

    How Hungary grabbed the world's attention resisting the Soviets in 1956

  2. Turkey - The Ottomans: East or West

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

  3. Turkey - The Military and Decline

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

  4. Turkey - Ottoman or Turk

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

  5. Turkey - A Delicate Balancing Act

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

  6. Trailer

    When did countries become countries? Misha Glenny finds out.

  7. The USA - The Melting Pot

    Misha Glenny on the people came to America, and the people who were there first

  8. The USA - The Borderlands

    To invent a country you have to define a country. Misha Glenny on the borders of the USA.

  9. The USA - It'll Never Work!

    Misha Glenny on the invention of the most powerful country in the world

  10. The Terror, the Terror

    The Invention of France #2

  11. The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Habsburgs #3

    The end of the dynasty

  12. The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Habsburgs #2

    King of Spain, Archduke of Austria, Holy Roman Emperor - where did it all go wrong?

  13. The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Habsburgs #1

    How did a small family from Switzerland become Europe's greatest dynasty?

  14. The Netherlands - Why Belgium?

    There is a faultline in Europe, from the North Sea to the Alps. Belgium sits halfway.

  15. The Netherlands - The Dutch Golden Age

    How Amsterdam became one of the world's leading cities in a few short decades

  16. The Netherlands - Orange Fever

    How did a few boggy provinces become one of the trading heavyweights of the world?

  17. The Invention of Spain #3

    A sense of disaster

  18. The Invention of Spain #2

    The heroic last stand

  19. The Invention of Spain #1

    What is Catalonia? What's Castille?

  20. The Invention of Italy #3

    Big appetite, bad teeth

  21. The Invention of Italy #2

    The man in the red cape

  22. The Invention of Italy #1

    A less than sturdy boot

  23. The Invention of Britain #4 - so many different little corners!

    Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales - why all these borders, and what do they mean?

  24. The Invention of Britain #3

    Insecurity - from Dover to Dublin, presented by Misha Glenny and produced by Miles Warde

  25. The Invention of Britain #2

    Anglocentrism .... or why Britons Never Will Be Slaves

  26. The Invention of Britain #1- like quicksand for the uninitiated

    What is Britain? Who are the Scots, the Welsh, the Irish, the English?

  27. The Invention of Brazil #3

    Getulio Vargas, inventor of Brazil?

  28. The Invention of Brazil #2

    Independence or death!

  29. The Invention of Brazil #1

    I came by boat

  30. The Butcher And The Poet

    In 1848 a poet in a coffee shop set off a revolution that still reverberates today

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