Episode 17: East Timor
In All of Us Command
English - December 20, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutes - 68.4 MBPlaces & Travel Society & Culture Music Music History anthem history country countries international music geography culture nationality research Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In Episode 17, we're learning about the small island nation of East Timor and their long fight for independence, first from Portugal and more recently from Indonesia. This is our youngest country that's been covered on the podcast to date, gaining full independence as recently as 2002.
Anthem versions assessed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBetbUMn7UI (This one is a full soccer game but they sing the anthem first. It was too inaudible to be included in the episode anthem mix.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqgqb-DISII
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nw98086g3I
Babadok drum:
Main sources used:
https://www.britannica.com/place/East-Timor
https://factsanddetails.com/southeast-asia/East_Timor/sub5_10e/entry-3179.html#chapter-1
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-14952883
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/postcolonial-blog/2019/nov/13/australias-history-with-east-timor-isnt-pretty-but-it-must-be-told-truthfully
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/portuguese_timor
http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/04/10/timor.timeline/