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🗓️ 16 June 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
0:04.8 | Today, a correspondent shares his experiences of airline travel as a wheelchair user. |
0:11.8 | While going for a job in Russia can mean you end up having to take a lie detector test, |
0:18.4 | and while you have to remain tight-lipped at a Japanese baseball game. |
0:23.5 | Plus, the history of Ireland, traced through reaction to its most famous novel, James |
0:29.5 | Joyce's Ulysses, 100 years old. |
0:33.2 | First, the bodies were apparently found in dense forest in the far northwest of Brazil, |
0:39.4 | the British journalist Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, an expert on indigenous people |
0:45.3 | in that region. |
0:47.1 | Police have said they were led to the spot by a man who said he'd buried both of them. |
0:53.1 | Phillips's wife, Alessandra Sampaio, described this as a tragic outcome, one which would put |
1:00.0 | an end to the anguish of not knowing the two men's whereabouts. |
1:04.6 | Dom Phillips was there to investigate environmental destruction of the Amazon rainforest, a project |
1:11.6 | he'd talked about regularly to his friend and admirer Andrew Downey. |
1:17.5 | I can't remember the moment I heard the news. |
1:20.5 | I know you're supposed to recall these details, as if your world somehow stopped for a moment, |
1:25.6 | but I can't. |
1:27.3 | It feels like an eternity has passed since my friend Dom Phillips went missing on a river |
1:31.6 | in remote western Brazil. |
1:34.6 | I first met Dom in 2007 when he came to Brazil to finish writing a book about superstar DJs. |
1:41.4 | Dom used to edit Mixmag, a UK magazine about electronic music. |
1:45.8 | He had some DJ friends here in São Paulo, and Brazil seemed the perfect refuge far |
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