Lachlan Peters

In the Shadows of Utopia: The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian Nightmare

History EN ↓ 53 episodes

A comprehensive, long-form history podcast about Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge and the Pol Pot Regime.

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Lachlan Peters

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S1 Ep3: The Rise of the Khmer and Angkor (Part Two) 18.07.2018 1:28:27

Time Period Covered: 802 – 1296 CE 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 stretched to its limits? In this episode, Lachlan traces the rise of the Khmer Empire from Jayavarman II's ceremony on Phnom Kulen to the death of Jayavarman VII, the most p...

S1 Ep2: The Rise of the Khmer and Angkor (Part One) 19.04.2018 1:18:54

Watch The Full YouTube Documentary Here: https://youtu.be/RfEnSrw-hMU This is part one of a new three part introduction to Angkor and Khmer civilisation, if you are a long-time listener, please make sure to re-download this episode. Time Period Covered: Pre-history – 850 CE Who are the Khmer people, and where did they come from? What is the Tonle Sap, and why does it make Angkor possible? And wh...

S1 Ep1: An Introduction to the Khmer Rouge, the Killing Fields and the 'Cambodian Genocide' 28.01.2018 52:46

How would you react to being forced out of your home at gunpoint, ordered to leave all of your belongings behind, and instructed to walk for days, weeks and months, to an unknown fate in the countryside? And that is just the beginning of the nightmare. The first episode of the series is intended to be a very basic introduction to the the complex set of circumstances that Cambodia faced midway t...