TV Shows Amazon With Bruce Parry - BBC2 Mondays 9pm

charlesbeams · 15 Sep 2008

Ring the church bells and pin up the bunting, for tonight, lovable tribehopper Bruce Parry returns to our screens after too long away. This time he's trekking the length of the Amazon, starting in the High Andes of Peru and working his way to the Atlantic over the course of six programmes. The only question is whether the mighty river can match Parry's bottomless wells of enthusiasm. You have to love the way Parry breaks the ice with local people by laughing uproariously as soon as he meets them: even before anyone has said anything, he's in stitches. His first hosts are a wonderful Quechua family whose lamas and alpacas he helps to shear and whose coca leaves he chews to beat altitude sickness. Naturally, coca becomes the theme as he travels through the valleys where it's grown and processed into cocaine base. As ever, Parry is just as good with dark subject matter as he is at having fun, and it's hard to beat his description of the cocaine economy as "a swirling mess".
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Any body else planning on watching this?

its on in about 10minutes.

really liked Tribe, so im definitely giving it a watch.

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