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Historian Margaret MacMillan visits Estonia, exploring how a tiny nation has lived with conquest and constant tension on Europe's edge.

What's really shaped Europeans' identity? Historian Margaret MacMillan visits Estonia, exploring how a tiny Estonian nation has dramatised the question of where exactly Europe is, and where it ends in the east. She'll find traces of an extraordinary range of conquerors over the centuries, and the way in which old links - Germanic, trans Baltic - are reasserting themselves while links east to Russia decline. And she'll see how new kinds of history - through DNA analysis for example - are revealing why Europeans are such an extraordinary mix of languages, cultures, and migrations.

Producer: Chris Bowlby
Editor: Bridget Harney.

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30 minutes

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Tue 17 May 2016 21:30

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  • Tue 17 May 2016 09:00
  • Tue 17 May 2016 21:30