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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She was wealthy, I think.
And the Japanese just went into that place and just ransacked it and used it as a toilet and so on.
And then she got so frightened, she ran out to our house.
They terrorised the Chinese people, did they?
God, yes, they did.
They did all sorts of these terrible things.
And the women were crying, wailing.
Her horrified family flee to the countryside at first light, hoping it will be safer.
They're staying in a one-room attic above a coffee shop when Dorothy's father goes back to their old house to collect more belongings.
And he learns about further Japanese cruelty.
And somebody came and told us they cut a Chinese man's head and put it on a pole.
And all the brothers wanted to go and see.
And my mother was trying to stop them.
But they did go and they came back and started talking about it and my mother shut them up.
After weeks spent looking for work, one day her father and eldest brother come back with news of a job on a rubber plantation.
It comes with its own bungalow and although the estate is under the control of the Japanese, Dorothy and her siblings can attend school.
Every morning we went to school to study Japanese.
We had like a maypole almost, and we had to walk around there and sing the... It's a national anthem, right around the thing, every morning.
Oh yes, and bow.
The bowing is very important.
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