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

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

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

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

Fintan O'Toole talks to Misha Glenny about Catholics, Protestants, and Top of the Pops

Dr Joan Redmond talks to Misha Glenny about Ireland, England and the early seeds of war

Ep 1 "Danes talk about Swedes all the time. Swedes don't talk about Danes so much."

"The thing about the border - we've lived it. It doesn't feel like history to us."

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

Ep3 Norway and fish, followed by oil

Bangladesh was born in 1971.

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

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

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

with Sir John Eliot, plus exciting news

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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