OTHER ASIAN NATIONS: AUDIO LINKS
LEGACY OF POL POT,
On Point, April 12, 2005. BBC journalist Philip Short talks about
his new book on the Khmer Rouge ruler.
MACARTHUR'S BABY, In Our Time, March 14-21,
2005. A two-part BBC series in which Anglo-Dutch writer Ian Buruma
studies the post-war American Occupation of Japan.
ENIGMA OF POL POT: A
"Talk of the Nation" March 2, 2005 feature in which the guest is Philip Short,
author of Pol Pot: Anatomy of A Nightmare.
VIETNAM PAVES HO CHI MINH TRAIL,
Morning Edition, April 5, 2004. A news report on the government
decision to transform the war-time supply route into a modern highway.
"KOREA
-- THE UNFINISHED WAR," American
RadioWorks, July, 2003.
A report on the fiftieth anniversary of the war about its historical
significance.
TIGER TALES -- THAILAND,
BBC Radio 4, March 9, 2003. Asia correspondent Chris Gunness uses
the life of Bhumibol Adulyadej The Great, the king of Thailand since 1946 and
the world's longest-serving monarch, as a window onto the history of Thailand.
TIGER TALES -- INDONESIA,
BBC Radio 4, March 2, 2003. Asia correspondent Chris Gunness
details the history of the governmental policy of internal transmigration, the
beginnings of which date back to 1905 and the time of Dutch colonial rule.
TIGER TALES -- KOREA,
BBC Radio 4, February 23, 2003. Asia correspondent Chris Gunness
explores the history of the troubled relationship between Korea and Japan.
TIGER TALES -- THE PHILIPPINES,
BBC Radio 4, February 16, 2003. Asia correspondent Chris Gunness
traces the history of American-Filipino relations from the time of the bitter
1899-2002 war.
WILLIAM DUIKER,
Connection, April 26, 2000. On the 25th anniversary of the Fall of
Saigon, Liberal Arts Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies at Penn State
University talks about his forthcoming biography of Ho Chi Minh.
REVISITING VIETNAM, American RadioWorks, April 2000. A series of stories on the 25th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon.
LOUNG UNG, Fresh Air,
January 27, 2000. The National Spokesperson For the Campaign For A
Landmine Free World discusses her memoir, First They Killed My Father: A
Daughter of Cambodia Remembers.
PHOTOJOURNALISTS HORST FAAS AND TIM PAGE,
Fresh Air, May 31, 1999. The editors of Requiem, a volume
dedicated to the photographers who lost their lives in Indochina from the
1950s through the mid-1970s, discuss their book.
HISTORIAN JOHN DOWER,
Fresh Air, April 5, 1999. The author of Embracing Defeat: Japan
in the Wake of World War II talks about the American Occupation of Japan.
CAMBODIA/KHMER ROUGE,
Talk of the Nation, March 11, 1999. Host Ray Suarez and guest Loung
Ung and Elizabeth Becker discuss whether a national or international tribunal
can lead to justice and/or reconciliation for the the 1970s-era genocide.