S3 Ep10: Interview: The Man Who Stole the Gods | Douglas Latchford & Cambodia’s Looted Khmer Art with Matthew Campbell
Matthew Campbell, award-winning journalist for Bloomberg Businessweek and author of The Man Who Stole the Gods, joins Lachlan Peters to discuss Douglas Latchford, the extraordinary plunder of Cambodia...
15 Sep 1h 4min
S3 Ep9: 1973 Part One: The Return of the King
In early 1973, Norodom Sihanouk travelled down the Ho Chi Minh trail and back onto Cambodian soil for the first time since the coup. China Pictorial published a special issue of photographs to prove i...
1 Sep 1h 43min
S3 Ep8: Terrorism, Rock and Roll and the Battle of Angkor Wat
At the beginning of 1972, Khmer Rouge and Vietnamese forces fought each other in the temple complex at Angkor. In Phnom Penh, a city swollen with refugees and rocked by bombings, the radios played Sin...
31 Maj 2h 20min
S3 Ep7: How to Get Out of a War in Indochina: Nixon, Mao and the Paris Peace Accords
In February 1972 Richard Nixon flew to Beijing to shake Mao's hand. In May he went to Moscow. In between, North Vietnam launched the largest conventional offensive of the war and American bombers retu...
16 Feb 2h
S3: Interview: Maoism, the Three Ghosts, and the Khmer Rouge with Matt Galway
In this extended interview, I’m joined by historian Matt Galway, author of Global Maoism, to unpack the intellectual, ideological, and historical foundations of Maoism and Cambodian communism.We begin...
19 Jan 1h 31min
S3 Ep6: 1972 - Life (and Death) in the Liberated Zones. Regrets for the Khmer Soul and M-13
In 1972 a Phnom Penh schools inspector named Ith Sarin spent nine months inside Khmer Rouge territory and came back to write about it. Around the same time a French scholar named Francois Bizot spent ...
4 Jan 1h 38min
S3: Interview: The Super Great Leap Forward and the Khmer Rouge Prison System with Henri Locard
This episode is a follow-up to the two-hour discussion I had with historian Henri Locard. The video of that full conversation is available for free on Patreon right here (or just go to https://www.pat...
22 Okt 20251h 8min
S3: Interview: Who Killed Haing Ngor? With Patricia Nunan
You've seen The Killing Fields, you probably know that Haing Ngor, who played Dith Pran in the film won an oscar. You might also know that he was murdered in Los Angeles. But the version of that story...
17 Okt 202534min
