Missing in the Amazon: the journalist and the president – episode two
Off Duty | The Guardian Investigates
The Guardian
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:07.3 | Hi, this is Michael Safi, host of the Guardians today in Focus Podcasts. |
| 0:11.5 | This is a new feed where you'll find all of the Guardian's award-winning investigative podcast series. |
| 0:18.0 | Today, we're bringing you the next episode of Missing in the Amazon, hosted by our Latin |
| 0:22.9 | America correspondent Tom Phillips. It's coming right after this. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey, it's Baberton de Elishi here. I've just got back from an epic road trip around the |
| 0:35.3 | island of Ireland. From exploring natural wonders and stunning coastal views to chilling in a seaweed bath. |
| 0:42.6 | It's a vibe. |
| 0:44.8 | Best of all, you don't have to pick between the Causeway coastal routes and the Wild Atlantic Way. |
| 0:50.0 | You can experience both iconic routes in one unforgettable trip. |
| 0:54.5 | Explore everything Ireland has to offer at the Guardian.com forward slash tourism island. |
| 1:00.0 | This message was paid for by Tourism Island. |
| 1:07.6 | The rave explosion was really about house music and techno meeting ecstasy. That's essentially the two |
| 1:15.1 | combustible ingredients in the story. It's the early 90s and dance music is taking over the UK. It started |
| 1:22.7 | in illegal raves in fields and abandoned warehouses. Most of them have 5,000 plus people going to them. |
| 1:31.3 | And they advertise turbo sound. |
| 1:33.2 | That sort of got shut down by the police because they got wise to what was going on. |
| 1:36.8 | In the short term, if we don't act effectively enough, then what will happen is that the people |
| 1:41.7 | of Kent in the neighbourhood will have a disturbed night's sleep. |
| 1:44.7 | The energy from the raves had been kind of squashed a little bit and was coming indoors. |
| 1:49.9 | And then the whole thing went back into clubs. |
| 1:52.7 | And Mixmag grew to be a very powerful magazine because it had listings of every club in the country. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Guardian, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Guardian and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

