Searching for the last man in the forest

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Jair Candor tracks down remote Amazonian tribes in order to protect them from outsiders.

One tribe, the Piripkura has just one member left who’s living nomadically, deep in the rainforest. It’s Jair’s mission to find him, to establish he’s alive, and to protect his land rights from those who want the forest for themselves. Jair has monitored numerous indigenous groups in Brazil over the years, and he’s faced frequent malaria, armed logging groups, and the occasional arrow fired in his direction.

Presenter: Andrea Kennedy Producer: Harry Graham and Graciela Damiano Editor: Munazza Khan Voice actor: Thomas Pappon Sound design: Joe Munday

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:06.9	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.1	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:13.7	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history.
0:20.7	We're still looking for Lucan.
0:22.1	It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime.
0:25.9	I'm Alex Fontunzelman.
0:27.3	This is The Lucan Obsession.
0:29.2	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.7	World of Secrets, Season 2 investigates allegations surrounding one of the most powerful religious figures of the 21st century, TB Joshua.
0:41.9	Search for World of Secrets, wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
0:49.3	I'm sorry, I'm's like reading a book.
1:00.0	When I enter the forest, it's like reading a book.
1:04.0	There are so many traces of animals, of trees that have fallen.
1:08.0	But we are going to look for people, right? Human beings.
1:11.6	So you have to differentiate what a trace of an animal is,
1:15.6	what the trace of a human being is.
1:17.6	There are this kind of a human being is.
1:21.6	There are many other men who work, that makes this kind of work that sometimes If it's a sandy place, or if it's a sandy place, or if it's a place with mud,
1:35.3	you can see the footprints, but if it's a dry place where there's no way you can leave a footprint on the ground,
1:42.3	then you have to go through the branches of the forest.
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