The five episode of Amok in the Jungle is out now.

In this episode, In this episode, Sultan Abdul Samad is visited by the new British Governor in Singapore, Spicy Andrew, while in Kuala Lumpur in Yap Ah Loy struggles to convince the miners to rebuild everything they've lost in the Klang War.

Listen to Episode 5 below:

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Further Reading

Here is the list of books, journal articles and other resources I used to research this episode:

• A History of Malaya by Richard Olof Winstedt
• Yap Ah Loy by Middlebrook
• The History of Early Kuala Lumpur by JM Gullick
• The Kuala Langat Piracy Trial by JM Gullick
• British Malaya by Frank Swettenham
• Footprints in Malaya by Frank Swettenham
• A Careless Heathen Philosopher by JM Gullick
• The Origin of British Administration in Malaya by Khoo Kay Kim
• Swettenham HS Barlow
• Sir Andrew Clarke by Vetch
• Sir Frank Swettenham's Malayan journals, 1874-1876
• James Waterford Wheeler Birch Journals 1874-1875
• The Residential System in the Protected Malay States by Emily Sabka
• British Intervention in Malaya 1867-1877 by Parkinson
• Perak Malays by McNair