How to Invent a Country

<p>Misha Glenny asks how the losers of two world wars, which drastically reshaped Hungary's borders, tried to fight off Soviet tanks on Budapest's streets. Produced by Miles Warde</p>

<p>Misha Glenny and Miles Warde head to a rally in Budapest where Viktor Orban compares the EU to the Habsburgs, forgetting it was tsarist Russia that crushed the revolution of 1848</p>

<p>McMafia author Misha Glenny and Miles Warde travel from Vienna to Budapest to find out how Hungarian hardman Viktor Orban uses history beginning with the battle of Mohacs of 1526</p>

<p>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 capital Taipei and Tainan City in the south to find out about this relationship with the Chinese mainland.</p><p>"I've obviously been following

<p>The Long March, the Civil War, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution</p>

<p>The end of the Qing and the troubled birth of the republic under Dr Sun Yat-sen</p>

<p>Find out how the world's greatest civilisation found itself dragged into two opium wars</p>

<p>Misha Glenny and Miles Warde head east to find out what is China and where it came from?</p>