Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Three years ago British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous defender Bruno Pereira vanished while on a reporting trip near Brazil’s remote Javari valley. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips investigates what happened in the first episode of a new six-part investigative podcast series. Find episode 2 – and all future episodes – by searching for “Missing in the Amazon”. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:02.0	Hi there. Today we're bringing you something new.
0:10.0	Episode one of a brand new series called Missing in the Amazon,
0:15.0	reported and presented by our Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips.
0:20.0	If you enjoy it, make sure you subscribe to the Missing in the Amazon feed.
0:24.8	There you'll find episode two, as well as all of our award-winning investigative podcast series.
0:31.1	Missing in the Amazon, the Amazon jungle.
0:54.9	Forests so dense it can be hard to know if it's night or day.
1:00.5	And teeming with wildlife, most of which you can't see, but you can hear.
1:15.6	Macaws, jaguars, howler monkeys, frogs, creatures constantly moving between the trees.
1:23.6	On the riverbank, at a small ramshackle port, two men were waiting.
1:29.3	My name is Orlando Possello.
1:35.3	My name is Christopo Negreus Pissando.
1:39.3	People come Tatako.
1:41.3	Orlando and Tataku talk to me in Portuguese.
1:45.9	Their words are being spoken here by actors.
1:52.1	It was early, but the sun was already rising high,
1:56.8	ferociously hot, glinting off the muddy waters of the Javari River.
2:02.5	Orlando and Tataku worked for the local indigenous association. They were here to meet their colleague, Bruno Pereira, and a British journalist he was
2:06.9	traveling with, Don Phillips.
2:11.5	Bruno was late, and he was never late.
2:13.9	Yeah, well, we'd agree the plan. 8 a.m. me and Tatako would be there.
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