The Invention Of... Podcast
Misha Glenny investigates the borders, the histories and the people that make different nations what they are.
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Insecurity… From Dover to Dublin and Beyond—Britain
Sun 10 Mar 2019
A four-part history of us - our borders, our peoples and the stories we tell ourselves.
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Anglocentrism… or Why Britons Never Will Be Slaves—Britain
Sun 3 Mar 2019
Misha Glenny on the role of England in the Invention of Britain
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Like Quicksand for the Uninitiated—Britain
Sun 24 Feb 2019
A four-part history of us - our borders, our peoples, the stories we tell ourselves.
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Why Belgium?—The Netherlands
Mon 4 Jun 2018
3/3 Misha Glenny ends his travels in the Netherlands in Brussels, home of the EU.
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The Golden Age—The Netherlands
Mon 28 May 2018
2/3 Misha Glenny on the astonishing golden age of the Netherlands.
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Orange Fever—The Netherlands
Mon 21 May 2018
1/3 Misha Glenny explores a pivot of western history, the Netherlands.
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The Melting Pot—The USA
Mon 15 May 2017
3/3 The USA is an invention. So how do you build the most powerful country in the world?
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Borderlands—The USA
Mon 8 May 2017
2/3 The USA is an invention. So how do you build the most powerful country in the world?
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It'll Never Work—The USA
Mon 1 May 2017
1/3 The USA is an invention. So how do you build the most powerful country in the world?
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Le Petit Napoleon and the Franco-Prussian War—France
Mon 16 Nov 2015
3/3 Misha Glenny explores the crucial events of 1870 and the Franco-Prussian war.
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Maximilien Robespierre—France
Mon 9 Nov 2015
2/3 Misha Glenny explores the impact of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.
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Getulio Vargas and the USA—Brazil
Sun 18 May 2014
3/3 Misha Glenny explores the life of Getulio Vargas, the man who changed Brazil.
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The British—Brazil
Mon 12 May 2014
2/3 Misha Glenny on how, in 1808, the entire Portuguese court moved across the Atlantic.
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The Portuguese—Brazil
Mon 5 May 2014
1/3 Misha Glenny presents a history of Brazil from 1500 to the end of the Second World War.
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Episode 3—Italy
Mon 28 Oct 2013
3/3 Misha Glenny explores the ambitious targets of Italian warmongers in the First World War.
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Episode 2—Italy
Mon 21 Oct 2013
2/3 Misha explores unification, beginning with Napoleon's call to the peoples of Italy.
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Episode 1—Italy
Mon 14 Oct 2013
1/3 Misha Glenny begins his history with the French invasion of 1494.
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Episode 2—Spain
Sun 4 Nov 2012
2/3 Misha on flashpoints and fragmentation in the Spanish monarchy's territorial possessions.
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Episode 1—Spain
Sun 28 Oct 2012
1/3 Misha Glenny begins a history of Spain with the momentous year of 1492.
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Germany Unified—Germany
Mon 31 Oct 2011
3/3 Misha Glenny charts the emergence of a unified Germany in 1871.
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The Rise of Prussia—Germany
Mon 24 Oct 2011
2/3 Misha Glenny explores the rise of Prussia, dispelling several myths along the way.
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The Thirty Years War—Germany
Mon 17 Oct 2011
1/3 How the events of the Thirty Years War hugely influenced later German nationalists.
