At the beginning of 2024 the president of the Chinese People's Republic, Xi Jinping, claimed people living on both sides of the Taiwan Straits should reunite "and share in the glory of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation". But is Taiwan really part of China, and could this question lead to war? Misha Glenny and producer Miles Warde have been to …

The Long March, the Civil War, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural RevolutionPor BBC Radio 4

The end of the Qing and the troubled birth of the republic under Dr Sun Yat-senPor BBC Radio 4

Find out how the world's greatest civilisation found itself dragged into two opium warsPor BBC Radio 4

Misha Glenny and Miles Warde head east to find out what is China and where it came from?Por BBC Radio 4

A bonus episode with Hannah Lucinda Smith, Christopher de Bellaigue and Misha GlennyPor BBC Radio 4

Ep 3 - How the republic of Turkey emerged from the ruins of World War OnePor BBC Radio 4

EP 2 - The Invention of Turkey and slow decline of the empire from the siege of ViennaPor BBC Radio 4

Ep1 - Istanbul and Mehmet the Conqueror. Misha Glenny on the birth of the Ottoman empirePor BBC Radio 4

Ep 2 - The Invention of Russia and the expansion east to Siberia, west into UkrainePor BBC Radio 4

Ep 4 - The Invention of Russia, presented by Misha Glenny and produced by Miles WardePor BBC Radio 4

Ep 1 The Invention of Russia ... told from a time when it was still very smallPor BBC Radio 4

Ep 3 - The Invention of Russia and Catherine the Great, presented by Misha GlennyPor BBC Radio 4

with Sir John Eliot, plus exciting newsPor BBC Radio 4

Ep 3 - Poland reborn and invaded again. Misha Glenny presents, Miles Warde holds the mic.Por BBC Radio 4

EP 2 - Misha Glenny on Poland's 123 year absence from the map, produced by Miles WardePor BBC Radio 4

Ep 1 - how Europe's largest state was sliced and diced by Russia, Prussia and Austria.Por BBC Radio 4

Bangladesh was born in 1971.Por BBC Radio 4

Ep3 Norway and fish, followed by oilPor BBC Radio 4

The Swedish Baltic Empire ... why it's not all Abba and social democracy with the SwedesPor BBC Radio 4

Ep 1 "Danes talk about Swedes all the time. Swedes don't talk about Danes so much."Por BBC Radio 4

"The thing about the border - we've lived it. It doesn't feel like history to us."Por BBC Radio 4

Dr Joan Redmond talks to Misha Glenny about Ireland, England and the early seeds of warPor BBC Radio 4

Fintan O'Toole talks to Misha Glenny about Catholics, Protestants, and Top of the PopsPor BBC Radio 4

Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales - why all these borders, and what do they mean?Por BBC Radio 4

Insecurity - from Dover to Dublin, presented by Misha Glenny and produced by Miles WardePor BBC Radio 4

Anglocentrism .... or why Britons Never Will Be SlavesPor BBC Radio 4

What is Britain? Who are the Scots, the Welsh, the Irish, the English?Por BBC Radio 4

Are we Italian or not? With Leoluca Orlando, Lucy Riall, Tim Parks, Lucy Hughes-Hallett.Por BBC Radio 4

Back to Italy with guerrilla numero unoPor BBC Radio 4

Misha Glenny on the early alpine visitors who were either very ill, or very rich.Por BBC Radio 4

Natural borders vs mountain bordersPor BBC Radio 4

How the Alps divide Europe in twoPor BBC Radio 4

The Invention of France #3Por BBC Radio 4

The Invention of France #2Por BBC Radio 4

The Invention of France #1Por BBC Radio 4

Getulio Vargas, inventor of Brazil?Por BBC Radio 4

Independence or death!Por BBC Radio 4

I came by boatPor BBC Radio 4

A sense of disasterPor BBC Radio 4

The heroic last standPor BBC Radio 4

What is Catalonia? What's Castille?Por BBC Radio 4

Big appetite, bad teethPor BBC Radio 4

The man in the red capePor BBC Radio 4

A less than sturdy bootPor BBC Radio 4

The end of the dynastyPor BBC Radio 4

King of Spain, Archduke of Austria, Holy Roman Emperor - where did it all go wrong?Por BBC Radio 4

How did a small family from Switzerland become Europe's greatest dynasty?Por BBC Radio 4

There is a faultline in Europe, from the North Sea to the Alps. Belgium sits halfway.Por BBC Radio 4

How Amsterdam became one of the world's leading cities in a few short decadesPor BBC Radio 4