S2 Ep17: Death From Above 1969: Operation Menu and Nixon's Madman Theory
How did Cambodia become the ‘key’ to Nixon’s plan to end the Vietnam War? What was the secret bombing of Cambodia? How many bombs did the US drop on Cambodia? What factors led to the end of Sihanou...
19 Aug 20242h 2min
S2 Ep16: Interview: "Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot" with Elizabeth Becker
How many journalists were able to set foot in Cambodia before the revolution, during the revolution and after the revolution? Not many. Elizabeth Becker is one of those people. In 1973 she began cov...
19 Jul 20241h 17min
S2 Ep15: Tet - Part Two: The My Lai Massacre
What role does the Tet Offensive play in the My Lai Massacre? What circumstances in troop deployment and officer training influenced what happened? Why were more than 500 civilians murdered by Charl...
7 Jun 20242h 19min
S2 Ep14: Interview: "Prisoners of Class" with Matt Madden
Lachlan sits down with Matt Madden, translator of Chan Samoeun’s Prisoners of Class. The book, having been recently released in English for the first time, is an amazing example of a Khmer Rouge survi...
21 Mar 20241h 18min
S2 Ep13: Tet - Part One: Hue
What did the Tet offensive achieve? How was the Battle of Hue waged? Why were almost 3000 people murdered by the Viet Cong? Time Period Covered 1968 This episode covers the Tet Offensive of early ...
5 Feb 20241h 32min
S2 Ep12: The Cambodian Civil War Begins - Part Two: A Revolution Waged With Empty Hands
How did the CPK develop their plan to genuinely start a war in Cambodia? Why did Sihanouk seek rapprochment with the United States? How did the bombing of Cambodia begin? Time Period Covered 1967-1...
26 Nov 20231h 51min
S2 Ep11: Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
What led to Mao's launching of a 'cultural revolution' in the People's Republic? What were the aims of this movement? Why did perhaps a million people die at the hands of their countrymen in less th...
1 Okt 20231h 11min
S2 Ep9: Interview: "Son Ngoc Thanh, a Khmer Nationalist" with Matthew Jagel
Special guest Matthew Jagel joins Lachlan to talk about his new book: Khmer Nationalist. The book is an exploration of Cambodian history using Son Ngoc Thanh as the central focus, and they join up to ...
3 Aug 202351min
