Explorer Bruce Parry returns for Tribe reboot 20 years after it first aired Explorer Bruce Parry returns for Tribe reboot 20 years after it first aired

Explorer, filmmaker and indigenous rights advocate Bruce Parry is set to return for a reboot of his documentary series Tribe more than 20 years after it first aired.

For the new three-part series, which will air at 9pm over three Sundays between 30 March and 13 April, Parry will once again visit communities in some of the most remote corners of the world.

In the first episode, he will visit the Waimaha people, who live on a remote tributary of the Amazon, while in the second, he will see how climate change is affecting the lives of the Mucubal in the Namib Desert. In the final episode, he will learn about the ancient religion called Marapu, which demands blood sacrifice from its followers, from the residents of Sumba in Indonesia.

Parry said, “It’s been over twenty years since Tribe first aired. Living with people who experience the world in such profoundly different ways was eye-opening then, but today it feels vital.

“I believe we have so much to learn from those who still live in deep connection with the world around them. It feels a huge privilege that the BBC has allowed me to explore these places and themes once again.”

The original show, which aired between 2005 and 2007, saw Parry live with Kombai, a tribe who still cannibalise those believed to be male witches, in West Papua, go crocodile hunting with the Daasanach in Ethiopia, and stay in the villages of Laya and Lunana in the Bhutanese Himalayas. It was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Factual Series twice.

After Tribe, Parry spent an entire year exploring the Amazon river for his next series, Amazon, which aired in 2008 and won the Bafta Best Factual Series 2009. He returned to screens in 2017 with Arctic, in which he visits people living in remote areas across Siberia, Greenland, Alaska and Canada.

The new series will air on BBC Two and iPlayer.

More information: bbc.co.uk

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