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Rearview Mirror Chronicles

Rearview Mirror Chronicles

De : 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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    • Mysterious Manuscripts
      Feb 2 2026

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      Some 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 episode, we step into the shadowy world of mysterious manuscripts, texts written in ciphers no one can crack, alphabets that belong to no known culture, and pages filled with symbols, diagrams, and illustrations that feel deliberate, intelligent, and utterly alien. From books that seem to straddle multiple languages at once, to manuscripts that have survived fires, wars, and centuries of scrutiny without giving up their secrets, these are documents that resist explanation.

      Why were they written? Who were they meant for? And what does it say about us that, hundreds of years later, we are still obsessed with unlocking their meaning?

      This is a story about knowledge lost, secrecy, obsession, and the unsettling possibility that some messages were never meant to be understood at all.

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      49 min
    • Jane Austen, Her Final Days
      Jan 28 2026

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      In 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, her unfinished work, and the extraordinary mental clarity she retained as her body failed. From the calm precision of Persuasion to the sharp, unfinished promise of Sanditon, we see a writer still evolving, still experimenting, still thinking, even as time runs out.

      We explore the mystery of her illness, the intimacy of her final letters, her small funeral in Winchester, and the silence that followed, shaped in part by her sister Cassandra’s decision to destroy so much of Jane’s private correspondence. What survives is not a full portrait, but a carefully guarded one.

      This is not the story of a cosy literary icon. It is the story of a woman of discipline, irony, and quiet courage, whose final days sharpened rather than softened her vision, and whose legacy continues to speak precisely because so much was left unsaid.

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      45 min
    • Hatshepsut
      Jan 24 2026

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      History 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 did not simply rule Egypt, she redefined what rule looked like.

      She did not seize power in a bloody coup. She did not lead armies into battle. Instead, she did something far more dangerous. She rewrote the rules quietly, methodically, stone by stone. She wore the regalia of kingship. She spoke with a man’s titles. She even carved herself into history with a false beard, daring the future to challenge her legitimacy.

      For over twenty years, Egypt prospered under her rule. Trade flourished. Monuments rose from the desert. The gods were appeased. And yet, after her death, someone tried very hard to erase her, hacking her name from temple walls as if she had never existed at all.

      So tonight, we’re asking a simple question with an unsettling answer. How does one of the most successful rulers in Egyptian history almost vanish from memory? And what does that tell us about power, gender, and who gets to decide what history remembers?

      This is the story of Hatshepsut. The woman who became king.

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      48 min
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