Podcast Episodes
Back to Search183. The Poet Kings: Taking Hinduism to Southeast Asia
Season 7 Episode 10
India’s transformation of the ancient world is indisputable, and tangible evidence of this can be found in the magnificent Hindu and Buddhist temples…
1 year, 7 months ago
182. The Lady Macbeth of China
Season 7 Episode 9
Having garnered absolute power through bloody means, Empress Wu Zetian begins seeing apparitions, haunted by her violent schemes. With her husband in…
1 year, 7 months ago
181. The Dragon Empress: China’s Game of Thrones
Season 7 Episode 8
The inculcation of Buddhism from India as the state religion in China was enabled by the violent rise of China’s only ever woman Emperor. Raised by p…
1 year, 8 months ago
180. Gold & God: Connecting India & Ancient Rome
Season 7 Episode 7
It was actually India, not China, that was the greatest trading partner of the Roman Empire. During this era, it’s clear that sea travel was the fast…
1 year, 8 months ago
179. The Golden Road: Rise of the Indosphere
Season 7 Episode 6
For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, relig…
1 year, 8 months ago
178. The Vietnam War: Nixon, Vietnamisation, and the Fall of Saigon
Season 9 Episode 29
With Richard Nixon now in the White House and not wanting to have his presidency consumed by Vietnam like his predecessor’s was, he begins to search …
1 year, 8 months ago
177. The Vietnam War: Lyndon Johnson, Americanisation, and Operation Rolling Thunder
Season 9 Episode 28
With the death of JFK, Lyndon B. Johnson took over the Presidency and immediately had to wrestle with America’s relationship with Vietnam after the k…
1 year, 8 months ago
176. The Vietnam War: The Rise of Ho Chi Minh
Season 9 Episode 27
Vietnam, or Indochina as it was known, had been under French colonial rule since the nineteenth century. This was until the Vietnamese nationalist gr…
1 year, 8 months ago
175. The CIA vs Fidel Castro
Season 9 Episode 26
Following the fall of Batista, the Cuban revolution took a more radical turn. Castro was not a communist to begin with, but as those around him becam…
1 year, 8 months ago
174. The Cuban Revolution
Season 9 Episode 25
It’s 1959 and the swaggering Cuban revolutionary, Fidel Castro, has just overthrown the unpopular American backed dictator, Fulgencio Batista. Che Gu…
1 year, 8 months ago