Roger Crutchley: Writing About 50 Years in Bangkok [Season 3, Episode 75]

Readers of the Bangkok Post will need no introduction to
this week's guest. Roger Crutchley - or Old Crutch, as he's known
- arrived in Bangkok in 1969 by accident, never intending to
stay. Yet here we are, 50 years later, and after a multi-decade
career at the Bangkok Post and adventures too numerous to count,
he sits down to riff on the past 5 decades in Thailand.


From bullet-riddled visa runs to Cambodia, to Vietnam-era
beer bars on Phetchburi Road, to Thai protests and coups, Roger
has seen it all, reporting on it in the pages of the Bangkok
Post, which was first printed in the same year Roger was
born.


We also discuss his new book, The Long Winding
Road to Nakhon Nowhere, which recounts some of his
misadventures, and provides some great insight into why Bangkok
was, is, and probably will always be, such a fascinating
city.


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