If there’s ever an upside to being sick it’s that I have tons of time to catch up on many of the podcasts I’ve missed. The Moth being one of these.
Last August The Moth featured a rebroadcast of a talk by Andrew Solomon, who related his experience in Cambodia while he was conducting a study on depression. Solomon does an amazing job capturing the intensity of walking through S-21 and the Killing Fields and learning about the atrocities that took place there. He also shines light on the fact that many of those currently living in Cambodia lived through that terror just over 30 years ago.
His monologue gives better context than most pictures I’ve seen (without visiting the sites themselves). Even if you’re not even vaguely aware of the genocide committed by the Khmer Rouge, this is definitely worth a listen. Despite it’s grim subject matter, it has a very positive and uplifting conclusion.
(If you’re not familiar with The Moth, the gist of it, as they say in every intro, is that it “features true stories told live without notes.”)
