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Viewers were also touched by a tribute in the end credits, which paid respect to all those who lost their lives. It read: To all the young intrepids who set out with big dreams. But never made it home. #TheSerpent Absolute stellar show and cast. Tahar and Jenna absolutely stole every scene they were in, such a fascinating and complex story told so well. Also, this final message made me a little choked up, not many ‘real life’ murder dramas do this but I’m glad this did, tweeted one viewer. BBC
Another wrote: This has been an extraordinary story to watch. Knowing that it s a real life story sent shivers down my spine. Well done to all involved in the making of the series. Herman Knippenberg is a hero for never giving up on this horrific true crime, to bring justice.
Jenna Coleman: It was terrifying to play a native French speaker in The Serpent
Jenna Coleman (Matt Crossick/PA)
Jenna Coleman has said it was “pretty terrifying” to play a native French speaker in The Serpent.
The actress told the Table Manners With Jessie Ware podcast that the last French lesson she had was when she was aged seven in primary school.
The BBC drama is based on the true story of how murderer Charles Sobhraj (played by Tahar Rahim) – who was the chief suspect in unsolved murders of young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal – was captured.
Tahar Rahim and Jenna Coleman in The Serpent (Roland Neveu/PA)
Framing the Khmer Rouge
Cambodia has long been presented to the world through the viewfinders of foreign photographers – but that’s slowly starting to change.
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January 28, 2021
A worker is silhouetted as he pulls his fishing net at the flooded land following recent rain in Chres village on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, September 1, 2020.
Credit: AP Photo/Heng Sinith
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In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge have left deep and lasting scars on the land, the people, and the culture. The ultra-communist government killed nearly 2 million people between 1975 and 1979, including most of the country’s intellectuals and artists. As a result, those who initially documented these lasting effects were foreign photographers, but this has slowly begun to change, with Cambodian photographers producing increasingly singular work, often in spite of the lack of access to resources and formal education. How has this change come about? And why is it