S3 Ep1: The Invasion (Part One): Counting Bodies Floating Down the Mekong
In April 1970, bodies began drifting down the Mekong into South Vietnam. They were ethnic Vietnamese civilians, killed by the forces of a Cambodian government that had held power for a matter of weeks...
13 Jan 20251h 22min
S2 Ep19: Season 2 Recap - Cambodian History from Independence to Civil War
Season Two covers fifteen years and more than thirty hours, from a newly independent Cambodia in 1955 to the coup that ends Sihanouk's rule in March 1970. This episode is the whole arc in one sitting....
22 Okt 20241h 6min
S2 Ep18: A Cambodian Coup: The Fall of Sihanouk
On March 18th, 1970, while Norodom Sihanouk was abroad, the Cambodian National Assembly voted unanimously to remove him from power. The men behind it expected to stabilise the country. Within weeks Si...
13 Sep 20241h 55min
S2 Ep17: Death From Above 1969: Operation Menu and Nixon's Secret Bombing of Cambodia
In March 1969, American B-52s began bombing Cambodia, a neutral country, in an operation so secret that even the Air Force's own reporting system was falsified to hide it. The campaigns were codenamed...
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 coverin...
19 Jul 20241h 17min
S2 Ep15: Tet (Part Two): The My Lai Massacre
On the morning of March 16th, 1968, the soldiers of Charlie Company entered the hamlet of My Lai expecting to meet a Viet Cong battalion. They met villagers eating breakfast. Over the next four hours,...
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): The Battle of Hue
In the early hours of January 31st, 1968, communist forces attacked more than a hundred cities and towns across South Vietnam at once. In Hue, the old imperial capital, they stayed for four weeks. Whe...
5 Feb 20241h 32min
