Lost in the Amazon: Rainforest Nightmare

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Documentary, Society & Culture, Wilderness, Sports, History

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Dave Boyer heads to Brazil to explore the largest tropical rainforest on earth. It’s a place of breathtaking beauty and constant sensory stimulation. But here, just one step can lead to calamity. When Dave and his travel companion stray from the trail they realise that once you’re lost in the Amazon, you might never be found… A Noiser podcast production. Hosted by John Hopkins. Written by Nicole Edmunds | Produced by Ed Baranski | Assistant Producer: Luke Lonergan | Exec produced by Joel Duddell | Sound supervisor: Tom Pink | Sound design by Jacob Booth, Matt Peaty | Assembly edit by Rob Plummer | Compositions by Oliver Baines, Dorry Macaulay, Tom Pink | Mix & mastering: Ralph Tittley. For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started. Or go to noiser.com/subscriptions If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at support@noiser.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	So, what are you watching at the moment?
0:01.8	Squid Game, Dad.
0:03.0	Let's watch it together this weekend.
0:04.9	Would that be nice?
0:06.0	What's it on again?
0:06.8	Netflix. You've got EETV, so you just switch it on. What season are we up to? Um, four? That's Stranger Things, Mum. And what about the kids? Don't worry, they'll watch Coca-Mellon for the hundredth time. Switch on Netflix with EETV, plus change up sports and entertainment.
0:04.5	It's TV with the ultimate flex for the hundredth time. Switch on Netflix with EETV. Plus change up sports and entertainment.
0:22.3	It's TV with the ultimate flex for the whole family.
0:25.4	EETV requires EEB Broadband, separate 24-month contracts for TV and broadband content of airy-term supply.
0:32.6	It's May the 30th, 2002.
0:36.3	Deep inside the Amazon rainforest, dusk has settled.
0:41.0	The rivers and floodplains glow a deep navy blue, as spindly trees stretch into the darkening
0:47.4	sky.
0:50.1	The dense jungle is gradually coming alive, as its nocturnal inhabitants begin their nighttime journeys.
0:58.0	Insects scuttle along the leaf-strewn floor,
1:00.8	bats squeak in the trees, and feline predators pared through the undergrowth.
1:08.0	From nowhere, there is a deafening clap of thunder, followed almost instantly by a flash of lightning,
1:14.6	a millisecond of silence, and then the heavens open.
1:18.6	Rain plummets down in heavy, cold droplets,
1:23.6	turning the ground into a slushy brown bath.
1:26.6	But while the creatures of the Amazon can scamper away to find shelter,
1:32.3	there are two individuals here who have nowhere to hide.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NOISER, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NOISER and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.