Amazon
Amazon DVD
Genre	Reality Documentary
Directed by	Matt Brandon
Presented by	Bruce Parry
Theme music composer	Guy Berryman, Magne Furuholmen and Jonas Bjerre
Composer(s)	David Ayers, Felix Tod
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
Production
Executive producer(s)	Adrian Davies, Richard Klein, Sam Organ
Producer(s)	Steve Robinson, Matt Brandon
Editor(s)	Gwynfor Llewellyn
Location(s)	Amazon River
Cinematography	Matt Norman
Running time	60 mins
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC 2
Original run	15 September 2008 (2008-09-15) – 20 October 2008
Chronology
Related shows	Tribe
External links
Official website

Amazon is a BBC documentary television series co-produced by the Endeavour Productions and Indus Films, and hosted by Bruce Parry.

Contents 1 Airing 2 Show content 3 DVD and book 4 Songs for Survival 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Airing

It began airing on BBC2 on 15 September 2008 and finished on 20 October.

[edit] Show content

In the series, Parry — a former British Royal Marine — travels over 6,000 km down the length of the Amazon River. Parry will meet and live with tribes, coca growers, loggers and illegal miners during the six part series. On his journey Parry travels by foot, light aircraft and boat.

[edit] DVD and book

The series was released as a 2 disc DVD on 3 November 2008. A book to accompany the series was also released.

[edit] Songs for Survival

Alongside the Amazon (and the previous Tribe) series a 2CD album, Songs for Survival, has been released by Kensaltown Records which features a variety of artists such as Mike Oldfield, Johnny Borrell, Hot Chip, The Go! Team, Mystery Jets and Yusuf Islam. Every track on the album is exclusive, and has been written especially for the project. The theme to Amazon is performed by Apparatjik, a supergroup composed of Guy Berryman, Magne Furuholmen and Jonas Bjerre (of Coldplay, A-ha and Mew respectively).^[1]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Amazon at BBC Online
• Amazon at Indus Films
• Bruce Parry's website
• Amazon at the Internet Movie Database