
Lost stories from 🇵🇭 history 🔊 Narrative nonfiction pod 📖 Book version published by @factionpress 📻 Written, produced, engineered by @liomangubat
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 165 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | History | |||

The island of Balangingi stands halfway between Borneo and Mindanao. Surrounding Balangingi were sharp reefs and surging cross-currents that would be lethal to any boatman… except for the Balangingi Samal, of course. Surrounding the main landmass wer... more
At seven o’clock on the dot, a high-pitched Japanese voice blared out from speakers and switched-on radios all across the archipelago. The program came on like clockwork, chirping in immediately after every station signed on for the day—a cheery sign... more
You pass by them every day: plaques of metal set onto walls and plinths, heavy with text and history. You may have wondered—how do you maintain these historical markers?
A group of students in the University of the Philippines Diliman wondered the s... more
Yes, Edison as in Thomas Edison, the light bulb guy. At the turn of his century, the tech wizard of Menlo Park produced thousands of movies as a showcase for his company’s vitascopes. Among those movies are five films about the Philippine-American Wa... more
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Well produced, engaging, entertaining, all while teaching me more about Filipino history. I’d longed for years for a good podcast on Filipino history, and Lio Mangubat has delivered. Excellent!!!
This podcast must have taken a lot of effort and time and it shows!
Can't wait for the next episode
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A history-focused narrative podcast that centers on public history, archival research, and cultural memory in the Philippines. Episodes cover restoring historical markers, early cinema and representation in the Philippine-American War era, religious and inquisitional history, urban transformation under American colonial rule, food heritage, and indigenous games and weather science. A standout feature is its blend of on-the-ground reporting, scholarly context, and personal storytelling from historians, educators, authors, and student researchers, often weaving primary sources with contemporary reflections. The show tends to spotlight grassroots heritage projects, collaboration with universities, and creative reimagining of historical narrati... more
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