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 RevolutionPar BBC Radio 4

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

with Sir John Eliot, plus exciting newsPar BBC Radio 4

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

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

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

Bangladesh was born in 1971.Par BBC Radio 4

Ep3 Norway and fish, followed by oilPar BBC Radio 4

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Back to Italy with guerrilla numero unoPar BBC Radio 4

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

Natural borders vs mountain bordersPar BBC Radio 4

How the Alps divide Europe in twoPar BBC Radio 4

The Invention of France #3Par BBC Radio 4

The Invention of France #2Par BBC Radio 4

The Invention of France #1Par BBC Radio 4

Getulio Vargas, inventor of Brazil?Par BBC Radio 4

Independence or death!Par BBC Radio 4

I came by boatPar BBC Radio 4

A sense of disasterPar BBC Radio 4

The heroic last standPar BBC Radio 4

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

Big appetite, bad teethPar BBC Radio 4

The man in the red capePar BBC Radio 4

A less than sturdy bootPar BBC Radio 4

The end of the dynastyPar BBC Radio 4

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

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

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

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