Episodes

  • Episode five: the fightback

    Episode five: the fightback
    Jun 23 2025
    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
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    38 mins
  • Episode four: the ambush

    Episode four: the ambush
    Jun 16 2025
    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
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    25 mins
  • Episode three: the protector and the poacher

    Episode three: the protector and the poacher
    Jun 9 2025
    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
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    35 mins
  • Episode two: the journalist and the president

    Episode two: the journalist and the president
    Jun 5 2025
    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
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    30 mins
  • Episode one: the disappearance

    Episode one: the disappearance
    Jun 5 2025
    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
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    27 mins
  • Coming soon: Missing in the Amazon – a new Guardian investigative series

    Coming soon: Missing in the Amazon – a new Guardian investigative series
    Jun 4 2025
    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
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    1 min
  • Black Box: shut it down? – episode 7

    Black Box: shut it down? – episode 7
    Mar 21 2024
    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?
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    41 mins
  • Black Box: the white mask – episode 6

    Black Box: the white mask – episode 6
    Mar 18 2024
    In January 2020, Robert Williams was arrested by Detroit police for a crime he had not committed. The officers were acting on a tip not from a witness or informant. In fact, not from a person at all
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    36 mins