Episodes

  • Missing in the Amazon: the fightback, episode five

    Missing in the Amazon: the fightback, episode five
    Jan 2 2026
    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
  • Missing in the Amazon: the ambush, episode four

    Missing in the Amazon: the ambush, episode four
    Jan 1 2026
    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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    26 mins
  • Missing in the Amazon: the protector and the poacher, episode three

    Missing in the Amazon: the protector and the poacher, episode three
    Dec 31 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
  • Missing in the Amazon: the journalist and the president, episode two

    Missing in the Amazon: the journalist and the president, episode two
    Dec 30 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
  • Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance, episode one

    Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance, episode one
    Dec 29 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 six-part investigative podcast series
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    27 mins
  • Ashes Weekly: England bounce back in madcap Melbourne Test

    Ashes Weekly: England bounce back in madcap Melbourne Test
    Dec 29 2025
    England came out on top in another two-day Test match as the tourists chased down 175 at the MCG. Max Rushden is joined by Geoff Lemon, Barney Ronay and Ali Martin to discuss England’s first Test win in Australia for nearly 15 years
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    49 mins
  • Gina: What does she want? – episode 7

    Gina: What does she want? – episode 7
    Dec 28 2025
    At 13 years old, a young Gina Rinehart read a book that would help shape her world view – Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. The novel’s capitalist underpinnings promote the idea that people should strive to be their best industrial selves. In this episode, we explore how these values are playing out in Rinehart’s life today, including her proposal to build a coalmine in Canada’s Rocky Mountains. And we hear how author and environmental campaigner, Tim Winton, views her efforts to prevent an overhaul of Australia’s environmental laws
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Gina: Mythmaking – episode 6

    Gina: Mythmaking – episode 6
    Dec 27 2025
    Gina Rinehart’s father, Lang Hancock, is well known as a pioneer of the iron ore industry in Australia but few realise he started his mining career on a smaller scale and digging for a different substance – blue asbestos. Hancock and his partner started the mining operation at Wittenoom in the 1940s before selling it to another company, CSR, which mined the area for 20 more years. Wittenoom has become synonymous with an immense tragedy that unfolded upon thousands of the people who lived and worked there due to exposure to asbestos fibres. In this episode of Gina, we interrogate some of the stories her family chooses to celebrate – and others they don’t
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    1 hr and 14 mins