Rebecca Hersher
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559 appearances
28 recordings
3 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 5d ago
Rebecca Hersher’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
And even after the regime fell in 1979, things were still really hard for those who survived because the Khmer Rouge also destroyed the country's economy.
And that's where this story really begins, in those years just after the Khmer Rouge's reign, the late 1970s and into the 1980s.
Yeah, it's a wild tale.
And it all hinges on one type of tree.
So at the time, it maybe didn't really seem like that big of a deal.
The folks were obviously dealing with other problems.
And, you know, mangroves are sort of, let's say, innocuous looking, right?
Yeah, totally.
I mean, they just look like shrubs.
They're densely packed with this tangled mess of a root system.
Whew.
It happens to be specially adapted to live in saltwater.
And so that also means the areas where you generally find mangroves are sort of like tidal marshy.
I love them, but they're more swampy areas than, you know, sandy beaches.
So for some people, they might not look all that amazing.
But no matter what you think they look like, these trees are amazing.
They basically have superpowers.
Three superpowers, in fact, that we want to talk about today.
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