In the Shadows of Utopia

Description

The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian Nightmare

In the Shadows of Utopia is the first podcast dedicated to explaining the Khmer Rouge revolution in the context of Cambodian and world history. More than just being the “Cambodian Genocide Podcast” or “The Khmer Rouge Podcast”, this is an attempt to contextualise the horrors that Cambodia faced in the 1970’s, going into detail and depth that is often missing in other short treatments of the subject.

To fully explain the reasons why the Khmer Rouge killed more than a quarter of the entire Cambodian population - in just under four years - requires time, effort, and extensive research. If you are only vaguely aware of the “Pol Pot Regime” or if you have watched “The Killing Fields” or “First They Killed My Father” and would like to know more about why and how Democratic Kampuchea came to be, then this podcast is for you. A perfect primer to travel in Cambodia or as a foundation for study of Cambodian history or of the Pol Pot regime.

Utilising a huge number of sources as well as interviews with experts and historians, this limited series will provide a thorough narrative history of Cambodia. It will address the forces both internal and external which pull the country into a tragic set of circumstances that, ultimately, produce one of the worst human disasters of the 20th century.

The podcast can be listened to on all major providers, as well as visually represented on YouTube along with various video essays that explore historical questions.