Max Pearson
speaker
1,342 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Apr
Max Pearson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
People who once lived in Daraya have begun buying back their books that were sold at flea markets following the civil war, identifying them by the secret library's handwritten notes inside the covers.
Surya Elango was speaking to Malik Al-Rafai, the young underground librarian of Daraya.
Before that, the start of the Second World War in the Pacific.
While fighting had been underway in Europe for more than two years, it wasn't until Japanese troops landed in what was then northern Malaya that the war in the Asia-Pacific region really began.
Jacqueline Payne has been hearing from a woman who was caught up in that Japanese invasion.
It's just after midnight on the 8th of December 1941, and Japanese troops have just landed on Kotobaru Beach on Malaya's northeast coast.
In less than an hour, Japanese aircraft will begin their surprise attack on US troops in Hawaii's Pearl Harbor.
Dorothy Varayan is aged nine and living in Malacca City in southwestern Malaya with her family, including nine brothers and sisters.
One day, a plane came and bombed, and that's probably when people started to get frightened.
And then there was nothing else for a while.
My father knew that the Japanese had come to the north.
The race was on to reach Singapore and neutralise its British naval base.
Across Malaya, air attacks increase as the Japanese try to control enemy airspace.
Japanese planes were very funny.
They used a drone...
The boys could tell when it was a Japanese plane and when it was some other plane because they had a distinct sound.
They must have heard that before the bombs fell.
Allied troops retreat quickly.
Just hours later, Japanese invasion forces begin their advance to capture Singapore.
They make swift progress through dense jungle and down the western coast of the Malay Peninsula.
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