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Out of Africa

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Into Amazonia

60 min

The Road to Rio

60 min

The Deep South

60 min

Brazil with Michael Palin

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Into Amazonia

Season 1 · Episode 2 · Oct 31, 2012

The Python star continues his first visit to Brazil by travelling by river from the northern border with Venezuela to the capital of Brasilia. Along the way he visits indigenous tribe the Yanomami, learning about the threat to their hunter-gatherer way of life, before watching a rehearsal by the Amazon Philharmonic Orchestra and searching for the remains of Henry Ford's unsuccessful attempt to build a vast rubber plantation in the middle of the rainforest. In Belem, music producer Priscilla explains why Amazonian women are such powerful forces, then he moves southwards, meeting rock star and political activist Dinho Ouro Preto, who believes that despite its social and environmental problems, the country is on the brink of becoming a superpower.

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Brazil with Michael Palin

TV Series

20121h7.5

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Into Amazonia

Season 1 · Episode 2 · Oct 31, 2012

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