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 Revolutionโดย BBC Radio 4

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

with Sir John Eliot, plus exciting newsโดย BBC Radio 4

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

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

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

Bangladesh was born in 1971.โดย BBC Radio 4

Ep3 Norway and fish, followed by oilโดย BBC Radio 4

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Back to Italy with guerrilla numero unoโดย BBC Radio 4

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

Natural borders vs mountain bordersโดย BBC Radio 4

How the Alps divide Europe in twoโดย BBC Radio 4

The Invention of France #3โดย BBC Radio 4

The Invention of France #2โดย BBC Radio 4

The Invention of France #1โดย BBC Radio 4

Getulio Vargas, inventor of Brazil?โดย BBC Radio 4

Independence or death!โดย BBC Radio 4

I came by boatโดย BBC Radio 4

A sense of disasterโดย BBC Radio 4

The heroic last standโดย BBC Radio 4

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

Big appetite, bad teethโดย BBC Radio 4

The man in the red capeโดย BBC Radio 4

A less than sturdy bootโดย BBC Radio 4

The end of the dynastyโดย BBC Radio 4

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

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

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

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