S1 Ep5: Cambodia After Angkor (Part Two): Conquistadors, Missionaries and the Master's Tea
In the 1590s a Spaniard and a Portuguese, Blas Ruiz and Diogo Veloso, arrived in Cambodia and came close to taking the country over. It ended in a massacre and a farce, and it was Europe's first serio...
5 Mai 20191h 19min
S1 Ep4: Cambodia After Angkor (Part One): Caught Between Siam and Vietnam
After Angkor was abandoned, the Khmer court moved south to the Mekong and spent the next four centuries surviving. By the eighteenth century, Cambodian kings were being installed and removed by Bangko...
26 Feb 201956min
S1: Interview: 'Visualising Angkor' with Tom Chandler
Tom Chandler is a senior lecturer at Monash University. His research has focused upon the design and development of immersive simulations of the past, particularly the medieval Cambodian capital of An...
29 Jul 201852min
S1 Ep4: The Fall of Angkor (Part Three): What Really Happened to the Khmer Empire
What was Angkor actually like to walk through? What really happened to the Khmer Empire, and why is the standard version wrong? Was Angkor ever actually "lost"?Time Period Covered: 1296 – 1600 CEIn 12...
19 Jul 20182h 24min
S1 Ep3: The Rise of the Khmer Empire (Part Two): Building Angkor Wat
How do you build the largest city in the medieval world? What does it actually take to construct Angkor Wat? And what happens when the greatest king in Khmer history dies and leaves an empire stretche...
18 Jul 20181h 28min
S1 Ep2: The Rise of the Khmer Empire (Part One): Before Angkor
Who are the Khmer people, and where did they come from? Why does almost everything written about early Cambodia need to be revised?Time period covered: Pre-history – 850 CEIn this episode, Lachlan int...
19 Apr 20181h 18min
S1 Ep1: The Khmer Rouge, the Killing Fields and the 'Cambodian Genocide': An Introduction
On the morning of April 17th, 1975, the Khmer Rouge marched two million people out of Phnom Penh at gunpoint. They were told the Americans were about to bomb the city, and that they could return in th...
28 Jan 201852min
