Posted on 03/11/2017 8:02:39 AM PST by 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!
Today the podcast will wrap up the First Indochina War by covering the showdown which proved to the French that they couldn’t stay in Vietnam anymore — the battle of Dien Bien Phu!
https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/44400048/episode-68-the-first-indochina-war-part-5/
Bump your post to the top. Thanks for doing such a great job with the podcast!
Happy Father’s Day, if you are in the United States! And on this day 71 years ago, the communist revolt called “The Malayan Emergency” began. Now with today’s
podcast episode, we finish our coverage of the early Cold War years by looking at the Malayan Emergency, and we will follow the path the Malay peninsula took to become
independent. Hint: it was different from the rest of Southeast Asia, where nationalist movements developed many years earlier.
https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/44740935/episode-69-the-malayan-emergency/
Today is the first day of a new month, Canada’s 152nd birthday, and the third anniversary of the podcast! So naturally we have a special episode for today. This
time, instead of the usual historical narrative, we will meet the hill tribes of Vietnam and Laos, also called the Degar or Montagnards. There are 54 ethnic groups in
Vietnam, and 160 in Laos, but most of the time we only hear from the dominant majorities, the Vietnamese and the Lao. Therefore this episode will give equal time to
the other groups.
https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/45225514/episode-70-the-hill-tribes-of-vietnam-and-laos/
Happy New Month, if you are listening on the day this episode was uploaded! Here the podcast narrative will begin covering the Second Indochina War, or as Americans call it, the Vietnam War. This is the table-setting episode for the conflict, describing Vietnam in the mid-1950s, the events that caused the war to begin, and the motivations for the United States to get involved.
https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/47430865/episode-71-the-second-indochina-war-part-1/
Listening to the podcast on my way to work.
Thank you for discussing the Highland peoples in the various countries (except Cambodia, which has no highlands).
Another great podcast.
Today’s episode covers Vietnam during the early years of the Second Indochina War, from 1957 to the end of 1961. We will see communist guerrillas and their partners stage attacks, with guns and bombs, mostly against South Vietnamese officials, but sometimes even Americans become targets. At the end of 1960, they will be organized to form the Viet Cong, a major player in the conflict from now on. We will also see the response of the South Vietnamese president, Ngo Dinh Diem; he enjoyed a string of successes in the previous episode, but begins to falter now. Finally, the United States sends military advisors to go with the military equipment being sent to South Vietnam. In that way, the Americans show they are determined to stay until communism is defeated.
https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/47964584/episode-72-the-second-indochina-war-part-2/
For today’s episode, the narrative on the war in Vietnam continues, covering events in 1962 and 1963. We will see the Americans increase their commitment, because they are no closer to winning than they were before. Nevertheless, the Viet Cong will win the first big battle of the war, at Ap Bac. And then we will see the downfall of the South Vietnamese government, after President Ngo Dinh Diem makes one mistake too many.
https://www.blubrry.com/hoseasia/48488515/episode-73-the-second-indochina-war-part-3/
Live long and prosper; Episode 74 of the podcast is now available! Because the previous three episodes were focused on just Vietnam, it is now time to go west and catch up on the Second Indochina War in Laos. This episode covers the history of Laos from 1954 to 1962.
https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/48984271/episode-74-the-second-indochina-war-part-4/
Thanks, will listen this afternoon.
This episode continues the narrative we started last time, on the Second Indochina War’s phase in Laos, also called the Laotian Civil War. Unfortunately, the cease-fire and the coalition government set up at the end of the previous episode couldn’t last. Today we look at events in 1963 and 1964, and learn the overall trends that will characterize the war until the next cease-fire is signed, in 1973.
https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/49507836/episode-75-the-second-indochina-war-part-5/
Bookmarked
Today we are taking a break from the ongoing narrative. Several podcasts tell spooky stories for their late October episodes, so this episode will look at myths and legends from Southeast Asia, especially those about monsters. You may not want to listen to this alone!
https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/50625157/episode-76-monsters-of-southeast-asia/
Today we are taking a break from the ongoing narrative. Several podcasts tell spooky stories for their late October episodes, so this episode will look at myths and legends from Southeast Asia, especially those about monsters. You may not want to listen to this alone!
https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/50625157/episode-76-monsters-of-southeast-asia/
Today the podcast has another special episode, prompted because a donor to the podcast asked three questions that I should have answered two or three years ago. May you find the answers enlightening (pun intended). You may want to go back and re-listen to the early episodes that discussed Buddhism’s impact on Southeast Asia, especially Episodes 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7, after hearing this.
https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/51348748/episode-77-what-buddhism-is-all-about/
After a two-episode break, the podcast is going back to the narrative about the Second Indochina War in Laos, this time covering events from 1964 to 1968, with special emphasis on the battles for Nam Bac Valley and Lima Site 85.
https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/52170766/episode-78-the-second-indochina-war-part-6/
Sorry I’m early! I finished the next podcast episode ahead of schedule, so I am letting you have it today instead of tomorrow. This episode covers the part of the Second Indochina War in Laos, the Laotian Civil War, from 1968 to 1974. Now all we have left to do with Laos is talk about how the Civil War ended, which I plan to do when we wrap up the Vietnam War as well.
https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/52533833/episode-79-the-second-indochina-war-part-7/
Episode 80 is now available, and as promised, we are going back to follow the Second Indochina War in Vietnam. Today we look at events in 1964, with special attention on the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, and learn what caused the United States to get totally involved in the war. This is the last episode of the podcast scheduled for 2019, so Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy New Year and all that!
https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/53235202/episode-80-the-second-indochina-war-part-8/
Happy New Year, and here is the first podcast episode for 2020! In Episode 81 the first American combat troops come to Vietnam, only to find that their visit will not be a short one, and that a lot more Americans will have to join them.
https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/53790933/episode-81-the-second-indochina-war-part-9/
After years of using Patreon to send donations to other podcasts, I have finally set up a Patreon page for my own show, the History of Southeast Podcast. Take a look around (I know, there’s not much to see yet), and if you’re willing to support the podcast for one or more US dollars a month, consider becoming one of my Patrons. Thank you for visiting, and check out the podcast if you haven’t listened to it already, at https://blubrry.com/hoseasia/ .
https://www.patreon.com/HistoryofSoutheastAsia
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