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From Our Own Correspondent

Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira: Amazon Defenders

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Brazilian police say a suspect has confessed to burying the bodies of missing British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who disappeared in a remote part of the Amazon rainforest on 5 June. Mr Phillips' wife said in a statement that 'today begins our quest for justice'. Andrew Downie remembers his friend. Britain's Civil Aviation Authority has warned that the service wheelchair users get at airports has worsened: one man was recently left on a plane for two hours after everyone else had got off, and ended up calling the police for help - stories which are horribly familiar to Tom Shakespeare. His work has required him to fly around the globe, and it has certainly not been easy. The reasons the Kremlin has given to justify Russia’s attack on Ukraine are many, varied, and sometimes contradictory. What they all have in common is that few people outside the country believe them. Anastasia Koro says that lying has become so common in Russia, that even the most ordinary interactions now have the shadow of mendacity hanging over them. Crowds have now returned to sports stadiums in Japan, but Covid safety measures remain in place. This means that fans are required to keep their mouths shut, for fear that cheers and yelling might spread the coronavirus. So, it was a strange atmosphere that greeted Hannah Kilcoyne, as she turned up to see her first ever Japanese baseball game. James Joyce's epic novel, Ulysses, has not always been well received: a 'colossal muck heap' said one critic, while another described it as 'an unspeakable heap of printed filth.' It is now a hundred years since Ulysses was published, and today the novel is regarded as a masterpiece, albeit a tough read. Chris Page says that its increasing popularity in Ireland reflects the country's changing social attitudes.

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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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