Rearview Mirror Chronicles
Keith Hockton
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About This Podcast
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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S1E141 Konfrontasi - A War in the Shadows
Send a textKonfrontasi was the war that refused to call itself a war.In the 1960s, President Sukarno denounced the creation of Malaysia and launched a shadow conflict across the jungles of Borneo and…
S1E140 The Trial and Execution of Charles I
Send a textIn January 1649, something happened that had never happened before.A reigning monarch was put on trial by his own people.In this episode of Rearview Mirror Chronicles, we step inside the…
S1E139 Football in No Man’s Land: Christmas 1914
Send a textIn December 1914, in the frozen mud between the trenches, something astonishing happened.The war paused.On the Western Front, beneath a hard winter sky, British and German soldiers began…
S1E138 Greenwich - The Home of Time
Send a textFor most of human history, time was a local affair. Noon was when the sun sat highest in the sky, and every town lived by its own clock. Then, quietly and decisively, one place changed…
S1E137 Mysterious Manuscripts
Send a textSome books refuse to be read.They arrive without an author, without a key, sometimes without even a recognisable language, and then sit there, daring us to make sense of them.In this…
S1E136 Jane Austen, Her Final Days
Send a textIn her final years, Jane Austen was finally a published success, and quietly, unmistakably dying.This episode follows Austen through the narrowing circle of her last months, her illness,…
S1E135 Hatshepsut
Send a textHistory tells us that Ancient Egypt was a man’s world. Kings, warriors, gods with beards, power passed from father to son like a sacred inheritance. And then there’s Hatshepsut.A woman who…
S1E134 Rome’s Final Victory (Part Four)
Send a textRome’s legions have crushed rebellion, broken queens, and burned their way across Britain, but the conquest is not yet complete. In this final episode, we march north with Gnaeus Julius…
S1E133 The Rise of Boudicca (Part Three)
Send a textRome thought Britain was broken.In this third episode of the Roman invasion of Britain, we ride straight into fire, blood, and fury with Boudicca, the warrior queen who very nearly…
S1E132 Rome Strikes Back, with Elephants (Part Two)
Send a textThis episode opens with the bizarre and unsettling prelude under the mad emperor Caligula, when invasion looms like a dark cloud, only to dissolve into mockery and chaos. But the threat…
S1E131 Julius Caesar Invades Britain (Part One)
Send a textIn this episode of Rearview Mirror Chronicles, we return to the moment Julius Caesar steps onto the shores of Britain in 55 BC, a bold gamble at the very edge of the Roman world. Britain…
S1E130 The Nuremberg Trials and Beyond (Part Two)
Send a textIn Part One we watched Hermann Goring face the judges at Nuremberg, but Part Two is where the story really hits home. Because Nuremberg did not end in 1946, it launched a revolution, one…
S1E129 Christopher Marlowe, A Murder in Deptford
Send a textChristopher Marlowe was a genius, a heretic, and almost certainly a spy. In the shadowy world of Elizabethan London, where faith was treason and a careless word could mean death, Marlowe…
S1E128 They Died for Applause, Inside the Life of a Gladiator
Send a textStep inside the blood soaked heart of ancient Rome, where fame was forged in steel and death was sold as entertainment. From slaves and prisoners to superstars of the ancient world,…
S1E127 Hermann Göring - The Nuremberg Trials (Part One)
Send a textHermann Göring sat in the dock at Nuremberg draped in arrogance, still convinced that history might yet bend in his favour. Our latest episode peels back the veneer of the Reichsmarschall…
S1E126 Regan - Let's Make America Great Again
Send a textRonald Reagan. The smiling cowboy president who told Americans he would make their country great again, long before that slogan returned to stalk the halls of power. But behind that easy…
S1E125 The British Raj Shattered - Five Partitions - Borders Redrawn in Blood and Dust
Send a textMillions displaced. Millions dead. Borders redrawn in blood and dust.Between 1937 and 1971, South Asia was shattered, not once, but five times. From Burma’s separation to the birth of…
S1E124 The 1720 South Sea Bubble – The Madness of Men
Send a textIn 1720, London lost its mind.Merchants, maids, dukes, and kings all chased the same glittering dream, a company that promised riches from the farthest seas. But what began as a daring new…
S1E123 Lady Emma Hamilton – Love, Loss, and Legend - Part Three
Send a textIn this final episode of the Nelson and Emma saga, the guns fall silent — but the story is far from over. As the smoke clears at Trafalgar, Britain gains its greatest hero, and Emma…
S1E122 Admiral Horatio Nelson – The Man Who Loved Lady Hamilton - Part Two
Send a textLast time, we told the story of Lady Emma Hamilton, the woman who loved Nelson. This time, we tell the story of the man who loved her back… and the battle that would make him immortal.It’s…
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Rearview Mirror Chronicles has published 141 episodes since August 2023, covering topics in Documentary, Education.
Rearview Mirror Chronicles is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 45m.
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