A very good program is on in 10mins , first series was must watch stuff.
Tribe
9:00pm – 10:00pm
BBC2 South
VIDEO Plus+: 2429
Subtitles, audio description, widescreen
1/3 – Nyangatom
Genial explorer Bruce Parry heads to Ethiopia’s arid Omo valley to spend a month with the Nyangatom tribe, implacable enemies of his old friends from a previous series, the Suri. Parry is welcomed by the Nyangatom elders, who make him an honorary son before entrusting him with herding the goats. This is just the start of a remarkable few weeks that see Parry make friends with the tribe’s heavily armed young male warriors, before undergoing a gruesome initiation ritual in which he has to kill a cow with a single strike of his spear. This, of course, is life in the raw in a desolate place where food’s in short supply, so surely no-one watching has any right to feel squeamish about scenes of butchery, particularly when there’s so much more to the Nyangatom. They offer Parry an embracing friendship based on mutual respect and absolute trust, something that’s genuinely touching to watch.
RT reviewer: Alison Graham
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