Dan talks to Ali Ansari about the history of Iran, and discovers just how much of it there is.
Dan talks to Ali Ansari about the history of Iran, and discovers just how much of it there is. In this episode he focuses on Iran in the eighteenth century and its interaction with European powers.
Located just 100 miles off the coast of mainland China, the nation of Taiwan sits in the so-called 'first island chain' - a number of US-friendly territories deemed crucial to American foreign policy.
Yet China's president Xi Jinping maintains that Chinese reunification with Taiwan must be fulfi...
Dan talks to Christopher Andrew about the history of intelligence from Moses to the present day.
