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- Dream Alliance is an unlikely race horse bred by small-town Welsh bartender Jan Vokes. With no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream in the hopes he can compete with the racing elites.
- Bruce Parry visits native and modern people who live under Arctic conditions in Siberia, Greenland, Alaska, Canada, Nordic Russia, Norwegian Lapland and Spitzbergen. He shares for one summer and considers the locals' natural hardship, economic and conservation prospects, including the effects of modernization and global warming.
- Charles Rangeley Wilson, author, journalist and BBC 2's Accidental Angler, travels to Japan to explore the Japanese people's passionate relationship to fish.
- Bruce Parry joins the Matis, an Amazonian tribe wrongly nicknamed the jaguar people, in the 1980s nearly extinguished by exposure to Western germs, still quite a problem, and much of the shamans' herbal medicine was lost with them. Even bringing the imposed gift stipulated by Brazil's Indian agency PENA, the chief would refuse filming, till he is convinced the BBC is not here to exploit them as a primitive spectacle like earlier crews (even asked to pretend they still went naked) but to show their real life and transition with many modern introductions, such as soccer. Bruce shares his host Tumi's home with various vermin and partakes in social life, which happens largely in the long-house, including meals and rituals such as dripping a gruesome root-juice in their eyes and his as preparation for an exhausting hunt, notably for peccary after a dance imitating that boar's sounds and capture, covered in mud which is washed off. Blowpipes even shoot monkeys from high trees, some babies are adopted as pets. Evening entertainment includes story-telling and nature-imitating dances, salsa learned by young men in town -they prefer their own lifestyle still- has its village premiere in Bruce's presence. Fresh-cut switches, flexible enough to whip around the belly, are used on the bare back to give hunters courage, and by foliage-dressed 'forest spirits' on pregnant women and otherwise never chastised children to stimulate growth and cure laziness. Frog poison is administered trough small wounds as a vomiting-inducing ritual hunter's ordeal. Domestic fun includes body painting, which has lost any symbolical meaning. After his greatest hunt and the meal, Bruce gets a warm send-off.
- In this episode Bruce stays a month with the Atie, a hunter-gatherer tribe, which lives in Tanzania, surrounded by the far more numerous, pastoral Maasai, who look down upon them as 'cattle-less primitives' and soil the pools by washing in them, so the Atie generally must drink dirty water. They significantly supplement their meager hunting harvest by braving bees for honey, for Bruce a personal phobia.
- Bruce passes five icy winter weeks with a traditional nomadic group -half live in modern villages- of the Nenets, a pastoral people on the Northern Siberian Yamal peninsula, inside the Arctic Circle, which holds a quarter of the world's known natural gas reserve. They live in tents, following reindeer herds, which are wild except for the semi-domesticated beasts of burden, given the huge distance a five month annual tundra migration. Everything is made and organized for the polar climate, actually too complicated for a novice guest to be much use. They also fish in the ice.
- On Anuta, an extremely isolated small island, part of the (formerly British) Solomon Islands, Bruce gets the chief's permission to share 3 weeks the arguably most authentic Polynesian way of life with its 250 inhabitants, just 24 families who form a single, close community, bound by 'aropa', the principle that all produce -the entire atoll, behind low reefs, is gardened- and fishery catch -in the shallow using tidally flooded walls, and by canoe at sea- is shared, which facilitated the conversion to now devoutly practiced Anglicanism. Schooling in the distant national capital Honiara implies some westernizing, yet medicine remains so primitive -the chief refused a popularly desired clinic, claiming prayer helps best- that Bruce's first aid kit, mainly the antibiotics, must save a man's life with a badly infected foot. The traditional woven bark has given way, except for ceremonial use, to textile sarongs or Western dress. Native names are replaced in practice by Western ones, one boy was even called Mel Gibson- his father and another man went missing fishing a sea, presumed dead.
- Bruce spends a month in Laya, a village of the Luna people in the inaccessible north of Himalayan Budhist kingdom Bhutan. The local spiritual (and social) headman teaches him about ascetic detachment, but the traditions are more animistic. Even by yak, the local bovine and burden animal, traveling to even higher Lunana has to be abandoned. Returning also means participating in the three days annual festival, including an archery competition
- Bruce joins one of the last authentic nomadic hunter-gatherer bands of the Penan people in the Malaysian state of Sarawak in northern Borneo. he's charmed by their kind, clever way to live in harmony with neither and each-other. But most of all he's sadly impressed by the tragic ruin of their ancient way of life by government-authorized logging, which ruins the primary rain-forest forever: even when it grown back, the resulting secondary forest never regains the necessary rich variety to properly support wildlife and the Penan.
- Former Royal Marine Bruce Parry starts his journey along the Amazon at its Peruvian source in the Andes, the other domineering feature in South America. There live the Quechua, the ethnic Inca descendants, who still mix pagan and other traditions with the conquistadors' Spanish Catholic culture. Bruce's host family chew coca-leaves and herd alpacas, llamas producing the best wool. In the valley down-stream, past world-class daunting rapids, lives the Ashaninka tribe, who cultivate coca, which legal and has legitimate uses to chew against the altitude. Coca is also processed chemically, involving grave river pollution, into a paste which is the basis for cocaine, illegal but without realistic alternative in market terms, although their share of the drug trade profit is minute. Bruce joins a US-supported army raid on the cocaine production, which has no net effect. Their jungle is invaded by loggers and guerrillas. Bruce's brain-infected producer Matt's life depends on an urgent far helicopter flight to Lima.
- Bruce visits the Peruvian Achuar tribe, which lives in a pristine Amazon forest region. His host village is reluctant and mistrusting, which makes sense as neighboring communities, which accepted deals with oil companies, suffered wide-spreading pollution and cultural ruin. Bruce finds helping with logging and fishing particularly hard because of the daily purification with wayous, a beverage from a bitter vine, which induces violent vomiting. Much more is supposed to allow visions, but Bruce's rational ego resist. That occurs again in a city downstream, where it's mixed with hallucinogenic leaves such as dattura. He passes the Brazilian border and arrives in a town just before carnival, Rio style with a weird twist: everybody cross-dresses.
- Bruce visits by river Itui the Valle de Javari, a relatively pristine Brazilian nature and tribal reserve. It's home to various tribes, including the Matis, where Bruce spend a month for his Tribe series, so they welcome him as an old friend and implore help as even more terrible diseases such as STD hepatitis B spread, beyond shaman therapy. Next Bruce meets the Marubo, the reserve's largest tribe, made up a century ago by remnants of deep forest tries fleeing rubber slavery. He partakes in the macho excruciating trucadeiro ant bites ritual and ritual drum logging. Finally he joins a band of non-industrial loggers, who try to harvest hardwood selectively, claiming the track grows back even more diverse.
- Join Bruce Parry on a breathtaking journey from the Amazon's source deep in the Peruvian Andes to its vast mouth on Brazil's Atlantic coast.
- Join Bruce Parry on a breathtaking journey from the Amazon's source deep in the Peruvian Andes to its vast mouth on Brazil's Atlantic coast.
- 2019–20221h 34mTV EpisodeAn unforgettable journey from the foothills of Ben Nevis, down the West Highlands route to meet the sea at the coastal port of Mallaig. Cameras film not only the spectacular scenery but the crew at work in the steam locomotive cab.
- Bruce visits two 'brigades' of the 540 native tribes in Russia's vast Arctic Siberian wilderness. Since the Soviet collapse, much has changed, much remained. The Sakha breed a very tough local horse breed. The Eveni keep reindeer. Bruce is fascinated by shamanism, which originated here, but can't be revived after the Soviet persecution.
- In Greenland, Bruce joins a dog sled hunt with one of the last traditional Inuit hunting parties. He learns about their views on the effects on global warming, conservation measures, modern life and technology. Next he visits a town, where everything is imported at crushing prices, and a metal mine run by an Australian firm in layers made accessible by a retreating glacier.
- Bruce starts his visit to Alaska with the cabana family, which makes a fortune by fishing salmon three months a year in a smart, allegedly ecologically sustainable way. Next the hazardous adventurers who 'mine' gold by diving for it in coastal water near Nome. Finally he joins an Inuit village's annual semi-traditional, controversial whale hunt and ponders its crucial cultural and pragmatic value.
- Bruce joins Canadian Gwich'in Indian-Mountie Stephen Frost's family on the annual caribou hunt during the herd's spring migration over the Crow river, to calve in Alaska. Their tribal ways are in respectful harmony with nature. In total contrast, southern-more Alberta is world champion in tar sands, an extremely energy-consuming way to win oil from soiled soil, yet also of great economic value, also to local tribes.
- Bruce visits a Russian Artic Circle village. In Norway, Bruce visits Lapland, where the Samen people still practice ancient reindeer herding. Finally he board a ship to Spitsbergen, the northernmost 'inhabited' European territory, extremely inhospitable but rich in natural resources.
- The formidable Det. Superintendent Elizabeth Bancroft is leading the charge against the violent Kamara gang. Meanwhile, DS Katherine Stevens is given a cold murder case.
- When Joe is dragged into the middle of a double murder case, Bancroft determines to do anything to protect her son and finds herself up against a chilling new antagonist.
- With the evidence around the Connors' murders building, Harper and the team are met with conflicting accounts.