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

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

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

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

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

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

with Sir John Eliot, plus exciting news

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

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

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

Bangladesh was born in 1971.

Ep3 Norway and fish, followed by oil

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

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."

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

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

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