The wanderer returns

Bruce Parry is back from his travels to introduce us to a whole new world of remote communities

- LAURA CARRENO-MULLER

After years of exploring faraway cultures, Bruce Parry has no fear of psychoactive beverage Ayahuasca - but BBC bosses insisted on a strict safety protocol. "I've drunk it many times without a doctor," he says. "But because it's the BBC, there was a health-and-safety person."

The former Royal Marine returns with Tribe for BBC Two after almost a decade away from TV. In the series, Bruce, 56, immerses himself in three indigenous communities for weeks at a time. He adapts to their customs, takes part in their rituals, and even sleeps in cow dung. "I don't want to be a guest," he says. "I want to be a family member."

In the Colombian Amazon, the Waimaha people are initially wary of Bruce. But as he gains their trust, he joins an Ayahuasca ritual and samples the hallucinogen.