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How to Invent a Country Episodes

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    Russia - the Empire Strikes Back

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

  2. Russia - A Tale of Two Ivans

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

  3. Return to Spain

    with Sir John Eliot, plus exciting news

  4. The Birth of Bangladesh

    Bangladesh was born in 1971.

  5. Scandinavia - the narcissism of small differences

    Ep3 Norway and fish, followed by oil

  6. Scandinavia - The Viking Inheritance

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

  7. Ireland - escalation!

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

  8. Scandinavia - The Bridge

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

  9. Ireland - plantation and conflict

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

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

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

  11. Ireland - we used the word pagan as kids!

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

  12. The Invention of Britain #3

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

  13. The Invention of Britain #2

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

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

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

  15. Italy - Garibaldi's Grand Scheme #2

    Are we Italian or not? With Leoluca Orlando, Lucy Riall, Tim Parks, Lucy Hughes-Hallett.

  16. Italy - Garibaldi's Grand Scheme #1

    Back to Italy with guerrilla numero uno

  17. The Alps - and why Switzerland exists

    Natural borders vs mountain borders

  18. The Alps - an icy row of teeth

    How the Alps divide Europe in two

  19. Le petit Napoleon

    The Invention of France #3

  20. The Terror, the Terror

    The Invention of France #2

  21. Joan of Arc and England's role in defining France

    The Invention of France #1

  22. The Invention of Brazil #3

    Getulio Vargas, inventor of Brazil?

  23. The Invention of Brazil #2

    Independence or death!

  24. The Invention of Brazil #1

    I came by boat

  25. The Invention of Spain #3

    A sense of disaster

  26. The Invention of Spain #2

    The heroic last stand

  27. The Invention of Spain #1

    What is Catalonia? What's Castille?

  28. The Invention of Italy #3

    Big appetite, bad teeth

  29. The Invention of Italy #2

    The man in the red cape

  30. The Invention of Italy #1

    A less than sturdy boot

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