Vietnam War Perspectives

They Call Us Viet Kieu

The Documentary — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 13:00:56 +0000

A BBC reporter visits Vietnam to experience the country her parents fled in 1975.

#64: The Vietnam Tapes of Michael A. Baronowski

Radio Diaries — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 13:00:25 +0000

Recordings from a marine in the Vietnam War who took a tape recorder with him into combat and sent his tapes back home — until he was killed in action.

Chapter 99: Viet on the Vietnamese-American Refugee Experience

Lit Up — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:59:58 +0000

Viet Thanh Nguyen (also featured on Second Wave) won a Pulitzer Prize for his writing about the Vietnam War. He talks about his writing on this literary-focused podcast.

How a father brought home the Vietnam War

Conversations — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:59:34 +0000

A conversation with one woman who came to terms with how her father was affected by his experience in Vietnam.

Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and General McPeak on the Vietnam

Think Out Loud — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:59:07 +0000

Another long interview with Ken and Lynn, and General McPeak, who worked with them on their film, this time from OPB’s Think Out Loud.

Separating myth from facts about the Vietnam War (episode 296)

The Baltimore Sun - Roughly Speaking — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:58:41 +0000

Ahead of the documentary release, host Dan Rodricks speaks with Arnold R. “Skip” Isaacs, who covered the war in the 1970s for The Baltimore Sun.

Vietnam War: The Cu Chi Tunnels

Witness — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:48:47 +0000

Vietnamese veteran Le Van Lang remembers the war in the Viet Cong’s underground tunnel network in South Vietnam.

Viet Kieu

Second Wave — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:48:19 +0000

KUOW and PRX’s new Second Wave podcast explores the Vietnamese-American refugee experience. This first episode tackles how the Vietnam War still affects Vietnamese-American families.

A Rookie Reporter in Vietnam Captures the War’s Futility

New Yorker Radio Hour — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:47:44 +0000

The New Yorker Radio Hour revisits a story that ran 50 years ago — a young reporter whose “eyewitness report on the strategic demolition of a village helped change how we saw the Vietnam War.”

Saigon, 1965

Revisionist History — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:47:09 +0000

Revisionist History takes on the story of a top-secret research project in an old villa in downtown Saigon.

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

WTF with Marc Maron — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:46:38 +0000

Ken and Lynn sat down with Marc Maron for a long interview, in WTF style, about their new documentary.

The Churchill of Asia

LBJ's War — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:46:07 +0000

PRI uses secret recordings of President Lyndon Johnson to construct an oral history of his presidency and struggles in Vietnam.

Episode 1: “We are possessed by a desire not to know about Vietnam.”

The American War — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:45:39 +0000

In the premiere episode of “The American War,” Alyssa talks to Ken Burns and Harvard professor Fredrik Logevall about episode one of “The Vietnam War,” discussing the stories Americans tell ourselves about what happened to our country during the Vietnam War — and why those stories don’t add up.