Rearview Mirror Chronicles
Keith Hockton
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Keith Hockton, FRAS, is a writer, publisher, and award-winning podcaster based in Penang, Malaysia, with a deep passion for uncovering the stories that shaped our world. As the Southeast Asia Editor for International Living magazine, Keith explores the intersections of history, culture, and modern life across the region.
A dynamic lecturer and storyteller, he speaks internationally on Southeast Asian politics, economics, and history—bringing the past to life with clarity, wit, and insight. Keith is also a proud Fellow of The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and is on a mission to make history not only accessible but genuinely entertaining for everyone.
His published books include:
• Atlas of Australian Dive Sites - Travellers Edition (Harper Collins Australia, 2003).
• Penang - An inside guide to its historic homes, buildings, monuments and parks (MPH Publishing, 2012; 2nd Edition 2014; 3rd Edition 2017).
• Festivals of Malaysia (Trafalgar Publishing, 2015).
• The Habitat Penang Hill: A pocket history (Entrepot Publishing, 2018)
• Alana and the Secret Life of Trees at Night (Entrepot Publishing, 2018)
• Penang Then & Now: A Century of Change in Pictures (Entrepot Publishing, 2019; 2nd Edition 2021
• Bersama Lima - Five Together (Entrepot Publishing, 2022)
www.entrepotpublishing.com
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S1E161 History’s Strangest Questions: The Most Extreme Psychological Warfare Ever Recorded
Send us Fan MailWhat is the most extreme act of psychological warfare in history?In 496 BC, the Chinese ruler King Goujian unveiled a tactic so shocking that it still resonates more than 2,500 years…
S1E160 Bloody Mary - The Real Mary Tudor
Send us Fan MailFor nearly five centuries she has been remembered by a nickname: Bloody Mary. But was Mary Tudor really the monster history made her out to be? In this episode of Rearview Mirror…
S1E159 From The Hump to Saigon: The Extraordinary Story of CAT, Air America and Air Asia (Part Two)
Send us Fan MailWhat happened to the legendary pilots of The Hump after the Second World War ended?The answer is one of the most extraordinary and least known stories in aviation history.From the…
S1E155 The Flying Tigers - The Hump Crews (Part One)
Send us Fan MailThe Flying Tigers became legends. The shark mouths. The dogfights. The mythology of fearless American pilots diving through the skies above China and Burma. But behind the glamour lay…
S1E158 History’s Strangest Questions: Was The Great Stink of 1858 Real?
Send us Fan MailIn the boiling summer of 1858 London nearly collapsed under the weight of its own filth. The Thames became an open sewer, Parliament could barely function through the stench, and…
S1E157 Who Owns The Koh-i-Noor Diamond?
Send us Fan MailThe Koh i Noor is not just a diamond. It is a trail of blood stretching across centuries.Murder, betrayal, empire, conquest, assassinations, collapsing kingdoms, and one tiny stone…
S1E156 History’s Strangest Questions: Who Was the Last Survivor of the Crimean War?
Send us Fan MailCan a war last more than a century by accident? Why do some of history’s strangest stories sound completely impossible, yet turn out to be true? And how do forgotten laws, bizarre…
S1E154 The Last Letters of Marie Antoinette
Send us Fan MailMarie Antoinette still haunts history. Not because of the diamonds, the silk gowns, or the myth of “Let them eat cake”, but because beneath the powdered image was a real woman slowly…
S1E153 Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up? The Lost Christianities
Send us Fan MailWhat if the Christianity we know today was only one version among many?In the earliest centuries after Jesus, Christianity was not a single unified faith but a chaotic world of rival…
S1E48 The Ninth: A Legion Erased
Send us Fan MailThey marched into the mists of Scotland… and something in those mists did not let them return.The Legio IX Hispana had once been Rome at its most ruthless. Veterans of slaughter in…
S1E152 Marks That Outlive Us - Tattoos and the Stories We Carry
Send us Fan MailTattoos are not really about ink. They are about memory, identity, and the quiet human need to leave a mark.Across thousands of years, people have chosen to carve meaning into their…
S1E105 Vietnam, The War That Broke America
Send us Fan MailWe step into the shadows of Southeast Asia, where beauty and violence sit side by side, and something begins to break. Vietnam is no longer a distant conflict. It is the place where…
S1E151 The Emergency: Fear, Fire, and the Making of Modern Malaya
Send us Fan MailIt doesn’t begin with a declaration of war. It begins with unease.In the humid aftermath of the Second World War, British Malaya looks stable on the surface, plantations hum, the…
S1E56 Secrets of the Freemasons
Send us Fan MailThey’ve been blamed for everything from world domination to hiding the Ark of the Covenant—yet they still can’t agree on who brings the biscuits to the meeting.The Freemasons: part…
S1E150 Masterpieces and Mysteries - The Ambassadors (Part Three)
Send us Fan MailStep into the quiet grandeur of the National Gallery and come face to face with one of the most unsettling masterpieces ever painted, The Ambassadors. At first, it appears to be a…
S1E149 Masterpieces and Mysteries - The Garden of Earthly Delights (Part Two)
Send us Fan MailThere are paintings you admire… and then there are paintings that quietly take hold of you, refusing to let go. The Garden of Earthly Delights is firmly in the latter camp.Set within…
S1E148 Masterpieces and Mysteries - The Arnolfini Portrait: A Marriage or a Mystery (Part One)
Send us Fan MailWhat if the world’s most famous paintings are not what they seem?In this series, Masterpieces and Mysteries steps beyond the frame to uncover the hidden stories behind some of…
S1E147 Harald Hardrada - Viking, Mercenary, King (Part Two)
Send us Fan MailExile. Warrior. Something more than a man.In Part Two, Harald Hardrada arrives in Constantinople, the greatest city on earth, and enters the brutal, glittering world of the Varangian…
S1E146 Harald Hardrada - Viking, Mercenary, King (Part One)
Send us Fan MailBefore 1066, before Stamford Bridge, before he became a legend, Harald Hardrada was a boy standing in a collapsing shield wall, watching his world burn.Wounded, hunted, and forced…
S1E8 The Bible - The Book That Changed the World… and Nearly Tore It Apart
Send us Fan MailThis episode turns to the Bible, not as a relic, but as a living document shaped by centuries of belief, conflict, and interpretation. What begins in the ancient Hebrew texts unfolds…
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