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Historian Dan Snow journeys across the globe to tell the stories of history's defining moments.

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curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1042631089/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
      curl -sf -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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The Khmer Rouge & Pol Pot's Reign of Terror

October 19, 2026

Dan Snow (0:00)

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On April 17th, 1975, the city of Phnom Penh awoke to the end of a war, the beginning of something even more cataclysmic. For five years, Cambodia had been consumed by conflict. It had been unable to resist the lunar pull of the extraordinary violence of neighbouring Vietnam, and in Cambodia itself there had been a…

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