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  1. Missing in the Amazon: the frontline – episode six

    30 JUN

    Missing in the Amazon: the frontline – episode six

    According to Beto Marubo, if Dom and Bruno did the same expedition in 2025, they would face the same levels of danger. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, returns to the Javari valley and meets those risking their lives daily basis to fight the threats from organised crime. Is it possible to save the Amazon?For all links mentioned at the end of this episode, visit Missing in the Amazon at the Guardian

    34 min
  2. Missing in the Amazon: the fightback – episode five

    23 JUN

    Missing in the Amazon: the fightback – episode five

    Funerals are held for Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira and there is hope that the election of President Lula will mean new protections for the Amazon – and that the killers of Dom and Bruno will face justice. But organised crime is widespread and deep-rooted. The investigative journalist Sônia Bridi tells the Guardian’s Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips about a man who allegedly not only may have helped plan the killings but may have ordered them. A man whose name strikes fear across the region

    38 min
  3. Missing in the Amazon: the ambush – episode four

    16 JUN

    Missing in the Amazon: the ambush – episode four

    The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, recalls the moment that he and others on the search team found Dom and Bruno’s belongings in a hidden area of flooded forest. The team finally discover what has happened to the men

    25 min
  4. Missing in the Amazon: the protector and the poacher – episode three

    9 JUN

    Missing in the Amazon: the protector and the poacher – episode three

    Bruno Pereira was considered one of the great Indigenous protectors of his generation. And this made him an enemy of a man called Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, also known as Pelado. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, reports on the story of the two men and what happened when their paths collided

    35 min
  5. Missing in the Amazon: the journalist and the president – episode two

    5 JUN

    Missing in the Amazon: the journalist and the president – episode two

    What took British journalist Dom Phillips from the club nights of the UK dance scene as editor of MixMag to one of the most remote, and dangerous, corners of the Amazon rainforest? In 2022, Dom set off on a reporting trip with Bruno Pereira, a Brazilian expert on uncontacted tribes, into the Javari valley, to investigate the criminal gangs threatening this region. And then they vanished

    30 min
  6. Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode one

    5 JUN

    Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode one

    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

    27 min
  7. Missing in the Amazon: a new Guardian investigative series – trailer

    4 JUN

    Missing in the Amazon: a new Guardian investigative series – trailer

    In one of the most remote corners of the Amazon jungle, a journalist and an indigenous defender disappear without a trace. Missing in the Amazon – our new six-part investigative podcast series uncovers what happened to Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira. Told for the first time by the people closest to them

    1 min
  8. Black Box: shut it down? – episode 7

    21/03/2024

    Black Box: shut it down? – episode 7

    For decades, Eliezer Yudkowsky has been trying to warn the world about the dangers of AI. And now people are finally listening to him. But is it too late?

    41 min
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    The Guardian
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  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    22
  • Rating
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