[Vanity] The History of Southeast Asia Podcast

Blubrry ^ | July 1, 2016 | Charles Kimball

[Berosus]

I have been a minor participant on FR since 2004, but this is the first time I have ever started a thread. For the past eight months I have recorded a podcast on Southeast Asian history, and I thought some other Freepers would be interested in hearing it, especially when I cover twentieth century events like World War II and the Vietnam War. Although the podcast is hosted on Blubrry.com, you can also access it from iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and four other websites.

As of March 2017, I have seventeen episodes online, and because I have been going in chronological order, I have covered prehistoric, ancient and medieval events so far; currently the narrative is up to the year 1600. When I started, I checked the military history podcasts available, and found there isn't a podcast on the Vietnam War yet. If that is still the case when I reach the mid-twentieth century, my podcast will become the official Vietnam War podcast. Listen and enjoy!

[Berosus]

With this episode the podcast introduces the fourth Western empire to acquire colonies in Southeast Asia, the British Empire. Although Britain was a late participant in the imperial game, by the nineteenth century they were outperforming every other imperial power. Here you will hear how the British gained control over Malaya, Singapore, and part of Borneo.

https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/24561148/episode-23-british-singapore-malaya-and-borneo/

[Yogafist]

Thanks!

[Berosus]

Okay, since the latest episode went up today, we are back on schedule. And that’s not all; today the podcast is one year old. This time we look at the history of Burma/Myanmar from 1782 to 1890, when Britain conquered the country and made it part of British India. You will also hear me read a poem by Rudyard Kipling; listen and enjoy!

https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/24938075/episode-24-on-the-road-to-mandalay/

[Berosus]

The latest episode went up last night. Now the podcast moves to the east side of the Southeast Asian mainland. This is the first in a two-part series on how the French conquered Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. If you are interested in what I may say in the future about the twentieth-century Vietnam War, this episode is an important stepping stone, setting the stage to that conflict by bringing in the French.

https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/25285779/episode-25-french-indochina-part-i/

[JDoutrider]

Thanks for the update and your efforts in this important series...

[Berosus]

My latest podcast episode finishes what the previous episode started, covering the French conquest of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, from 1867 to 1907.

https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/25678371/episode-26-french-indochina-part-2/

[Berosus]

I’m afraid I broke a promise. A month ago, I predicted that future episodes would cover shorter time periods, but today, to get Siam done in one episode, I covered a 157-year time span, from 1782 to 1939. That means this episode will be the longest so far in the podcast series, but fortunately it is still less than an hour; you won’t have to set aside a day to listen, like you would for Dan Carlin’s history podcast. Here you will learn how Siam modernized, why it was the only Southeast Asian country that did not become a European colony, and why it changed its name to Thailand at the end of the period.

https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/26012651/episode-27-a-new-siam/

[Berosus]

I’m afraid I broke a promise. A month ago, I predicted that future episodes would cover shorter time periods, but today, to get Siam done in one episode, I covered a 157-year time span, from 1782 to 1939. That means this episode will be the longest so far in the podcast series, but fortunately it is still less than an hour; you won’t have to set aside a day to listen, like you would for Dan Carlin’s history podcast. Here you will learn how Siam modernized, why it was the only Southeast Asian country that did not become a European colony, and why it changed its name to Thailand at the end of the period.

https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/26012651/episode-27-a-new-siam/

[Berosus]

The next episode is up now! I took an extra day to get the recording and editing finished. The end result is the longest episode this podcast has produced so far, So I think you will find it was worth the wait. For the first time in seven months, we will look at the Philippines. Here you will hear how Spain lost its tight grip on the islands, and the development of Southeast Asia’s first modern nationalist movement. The narrative will cover events in the 1700s and most of the 1800s, and end right before the United States got involved in the Philippines, the topic of the next episode. And for the first time, you will hear my wife make a contribution!

https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/26658584/episode-28-philippine-nationalism/

[Berosus]

Here is Episode 29 for your listening pleasure! This episode covers the part of the Spanish-American War that was fought in the Philippines. In doing so we will say goodbye to Spain, and meet the last colonial power to come to Southeast Asia, the United States. In the past the narrative could cover centuries of events with one episode, but this time almost everything happened in one year, 1898.

https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/26996769/episode-29-america-comes-to-the-philippines/

[Berosus]

This is the third episode in the mini-series that the podcast is currently doing about the Philippines. Here we cover the three-year war the Americans fought to keep the islands after they arrived in 1898. This also completes our narrative on Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century.

https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/27686153/episode-30-the-american-war-in-the-philippines/

[Yogafist]

Thanks.

[Berosus]

I posted Episode 31 late on Monday; sorry I didn’t announce it here sooner. With this podcast episode, we begin a narrative completely in the twentieth century, so welcome to recent history! Here we also conclude the four-part miniseries about the Philippines. This time we cover the years from 1902 to 1941, looking at the minor wars that came after the Philippine Insurrection, and seeing how Americans and Filipinos learned to work together, so that the Philippines can become independent someday.

https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/28123464/episode-31-the-philippines-the-hollywood-years/

[Berosus]

For the podcast’s 32nd episode (33rd if you count the introduction), we will return to the Southeast Asian mainland, and cover the history of Burma, modern-day Myanmar, in the early twentieth century. In particular we will concentrate our attention on the nationalist movements that sprang up, to oppose British rule. Three of the nationalists we will meet here, Aung San, U Nu and Ne Win, will become important in future episodes, so remember their names!

https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/28583933/episode-32-nationalism-in-british-burma/

[JDoutrider]

Thanks for the update!

[Berosus]

The latest podcast episode continues our narrative on Southeast Asia in the early twentieth century, by looking at Indonesia, then called the Dutch East Indies, from 1901 to 1941 (A.D.). First we will learn how oil was discovered in the islands, and how it replaced spices as Indonesia’s most important product. Then we will see how the Dutch administered the islands during that time. Finally we will follow the development of Indonesian nationalism, and meet Sukarno, the first leader of modern Indonesia.

https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/28992958/episode-33-nationalism-in-the-dutch-east-indies/

[Berosus]

Episode 34 is now available! This time we continue our look at Southeast Asia in the early twentieth century (up to 1941), with a visit to Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, while the French were running those countries. If you’re interested in the Vietnam War coming later on, you may consider this episode a prequel, or a table-setting episode. Don’t miss it!

https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/29368240/episode-34-french-indochina-part-3/

[Berosus]

The latest episode of my podcast is the last episode in the French Indochina mini-series (the others are Episodes 25, 26 and 34), and the last episode for 2017. Here we wrap up by looking at the development of nationalist movements in Vietnam before World War II, with special emphasis on Ho Chi Minh, who will be the most important nationalist after the war. And then we will meet the Cao Dai and Hoa Hao, two new religious sects that got started in South Vietnam in the early twentieth century.

https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/29581123/episode-35-french-indochina-part-4/

[texas booster]

Thanks. I saw that it had downloaded from iTunes.

It will keep me company during that long, wonderful drive from Lubbock.

[Berosus]

Happy New Year! To begin 2018, the podcast will cover the course of World War II in Southeast Asia. For this episode, we will start by looking at the events in the
early twentieth century that motivated Japan to conquer most of East Asia and the western Pacific, and we will finish with the event that brought the United States
into the war, the attack on Pearl Harbor.

https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/30118223/episode-36-prelude-to-the-pacific-war/