Bruce Parry is back!

[danny la rouge]

Very sensitive and moving portrayal of the disease sweeping the forest tribes. Heartbreaking.

I loved the way the women tickled the men carrying the huge log home; that was hilarious. Reminded me of my daughters and missus laughing at me doing DIY.

Back on form, in my view. This episode got the balance right about telling the stories of those Bruce was visiting.

 

[Bajie]

Well Guyana's similar in the fact that they're small scale loggers in the main, but I would put that crew as particularly representative of the wider timber industry. Sadly, it's more the remoteness of the region that preserves it from heavier logging rather than as a result of determined eco preservation policies.

Whereabouts were you in Guyana Bajie? Know what you mean about the people - a lot of my folks were porkknockers in the Northwest, gnarly old folks with knowledge and love of the forest.

My mum is from Providence on the Demerara, though where I went to in the interior was on the Mazaruni River. Stayed there about 3 weeks in total on the Mazaruni, and 10 weeks in Guyana. There was gold mining camps dotted around, mostly dredges but some pork knockers as well, but most of the indepents pork knockers where Native Guyanese. I did a bit of gold panning myself when I was there, it was everyones hobby Though that was 16 years ago and I have not been back since.

I much preferred the interior to the costal towns, even Bartica is better than George Town, or was back then anyway.

 

[janeb]

That fact that a little boy in a village was called Bruce after him spoke volumes of how genuinely well liked he is.

I seemed to get a speck of dust in my eye at that bit

 

[madzone]

I liked the young girl listening to thriller during the ceremony.

Was that his mp3 player or hers? I couldn't work that bit out.

 

[Dillinger4]

Was that his mp3 player or hers? I couldn't work that bit out.

Hers, I think.

 

[Louloubelle]

I would have been interested to hear from Bruce about his feelings / regrets about the tribes he made "first contact" with some years ago.

The issue seems very relevant to this episode but he completely avoided it.

2 minutes 20 seconds into this clip ia a clip of Parry and a friend making first contact with a tribe in PNG
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jprJBYYRcqQ

His friend says he feels bad about it now, I wonder how Bruce feels?

 

[Louloubelle]

Very sensitive and moving portrayal of the disease sweeping the forest tribes. Heartbreaking..

even more heartbreaking as vaccines against hep b are widely available and it would not be beyond the means of the WHO to immunize all the people in the area, at least all those under 40

 

[DotCommunist]

Oh wow why haven't I been keeping up witht this. Watching him with the matiz

then with those shamanic tribesmen

 

[moonsi til]

bump. it's on in 5...

 

[DotCommunist]

fuck me those are some monster fish.

 

[girasol]

That was a good episode, my favourite so far I think

 

[DotCommunist]

my mum watched it and has fallen in love with Bruce

 

[moonsi til]

I loved the shot in the first reserve of the kid craddling I presume a pet armidillo and at the next place they had a little black kitten...

I don't think I could have gone into some of those tree enclosed spaces in the little canoe...it was very eerie.

 

[moonsi til]

my mum watched it and has fallen in love with Bruce

yay...your mum has great taste...

 

[weltweit]

I watched this last night .. good stuff ..

 

[Voley]

On in half an hour in case anyone's forgotten.

 

[insomnia]

yikes he's aged about 20 years since last week

 

[moonsi til]

^^^still looks lovely though

 

[insomnia]

So basically, Bruce is the loveliest man around, want to be his best mate etc.... but in bed i reckon he'd be too apologetic and ...oh god i'm a hetro male thinking this(well i was hetro)!!!

 

[moonsi til]

i'm not sure I could do the canopy...would like to think I could push myself to do it asit looks amazing.

I also don't have the image of Bruce apologising..

 

[danny la rouge]

When he booked into that gold mine "hotel", saying it was also a whore house, I though "Oh, Jesus, he's going to have a go, isn't he?"

"It was my first time with a prostitute, and I don't mind telling you, I was a bit nervous about what the camera crew would think of my performance..."

 

[foo]

he looked pretty relieved to find out he was mistaken about it being a whore house

 

[danny la rouge]

he looked pretty relieved to find out he was mistaken about it being a whore house

Which makes me think I was right about his intentions!

 

[Part 2]

I bet it was a brothel, just 'closed' temporarily while he was there.

Landlady had her finger in every other pie, can't see there being much demand for a hotel there for any other reason.

Good show last night, specially the last ten minutes about the value of the rainforest. Not sure I'd be doing much sleeping in a bed that high up though

 

[sojourner]

Not sure I'd be doing much sleeping in a bed that high up though

Thought it was funny the way he stretched nonchalantly, and went 'I got a few hours...'

Yeh fucking RIIIIGHT

 

[moonsi til]

Last episode... I's been a very emotional few weeks. A .huge thank you to Bruce and the BBC

 

[Voley]

Great series, although it petered out towards the end a bit for me. Nothing could match up to the earlier ayahuasca vomit sequence!

Best thing I've been watching for the last few weeks, though, by miles.

 

[lostexpectation]

what ya reckon to the natives attacking the dam engineer at the meeting with machete :/ maybe he shouldn't have come,maybe he doesn't realise they're at war with the natives.

 

[Louloubelle]

what ya reckon to the natives attacking the dam engineer at the meeting with machete :/ maybe he shouldn't have come,maybe he doesn't realise they're at war with the natives.

I wouldn't really describe that as being attacked with a machete
He was threatened with a machete and it got out of hand and he got cut
Understandably tempers were running high
Anyone who's seen people being attacked with machetes knows what the end result looks like and it looks very much worse than a cut on the shoulder

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Repeating on BBC2 right now