Interviews

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Recent conversations

MORTAL - Gabriella Wilde talks with Bruce about ancestors, belonging and speaking to our dead (2026)

The Future of Exploration, recorded live at the Royal Geographical Society with Matt Pycroft (2026)

The Sacred Union Podcast - How Indigenous societies cultivate egalitarianism today (2026)

Spill the Spirituality - From remote villages to sacred rituals, with Jaz and Trey (2026)

The Drug Science Podcast - Tribe with Bruce Parry (2025)

The Newt Podcast - Live at the Gather & Grow festival, on nature and culture with Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Marian Boswall and Gaz Oakley (2025)

Gone to Timbuktu - Bruce on returning to the BBC with Tribe (2025)

Wanderlust - Bruce on the Tribe reboot and what has changed since it first aired (2025)

Podcasts

Rooted Healing Podcast

The Happy Pear Podcast

Take a Deep Breath Podcast

An Evolving Man Podcast

The Lightfoot Podcast

The Body Knows Podcast

We as Nature with Flourishing Diversity

Sophy Roberts IGTV interview

Beyond the Pink Cloud with Dr Alice Kerby

Eindbazen - unique performance podcast

Tangentially Speaking with Chris Ryan

A Liminal Space Podcast with David Fedele

News Roast - Bruce Parry, award-winning documentarian, author & explorer, joins Jolyon Rubinstein and Haydon Prowse to discuss some of his incredible adventures and how they relate to his outlook on life.

Soho House Stories - the Pursuit of Happiness

All That We Are (formerly The Future is Beautiful) - Amisha shares a heartfelt conversation with explorer, documentary filmmaker, author and indigenous rights supporter Bruce Parry.

Sustainababble - As well as revealing the extraordinary stories behind the film – and what on earth a Tawai is when it’s at home – Bruce is candid in explaining some of the formative experiences in his own life...

Eco Hustler - TAWAI – A voice from the forest is a brilliant film. It is a deep and profound meditation on the state of the world today and how this may have been brought about by changes in how we think...

Daniel Pinchbeck interviews Bruce Parry at the Assemblage, NYC

All That We Are - Live at Noisily Festival, with Hely Cameron and Ilana Wetzler (2023)

The Chris Geisler Podcast - Could this save humanity? (2023)

TNM Unplugged - What we can learn about nature and connection from Indigenous tribes (2023)

Mangu.TV Podcast - On regeneration, egalitarianism and catalysts for awakening (2022)

Being Earthbound Podcast - The path to becoming indigenous (2022)

The Cosmic Codex - Remembering the egalitarian soul (2021)

Natural Born Alchemist (2020)

WorldWild Podcast - Reimagining ourselves, with Nicola Burgess (2020)

In Conversation with Nathalie Nahai - Culture, Indigenous wisdom and the power of community (2020)

Ibiza: The Reset Rebel (2019)

Healthy For Men - with Oliver Chittenden of Head Talks (2018)

London Real - Quest (2013)

Talks and video

Bruce talking at the Tree Conference 2017

Aha magazine interview 2017

Press

The Guardian - In his new documentary, the explorer joins Borneo’s Penan tribe to see what the world’s indigenous people can teach us about our own survival and that of the planet...

Geographical Magazine - Right from the beginning, TAWAI, feels like a very different project to what we've become used to from Bruce Parry...

Wanderlust - We talk tribes and Tawai with explorer Bruce Parry after his latest film project across India, Borneo and the Amazon. Find out the importance of indigenous people and how merging solutions can help society

The Daily Telegraph - Bruce Parry on returning to the jungle, hallucinogenic drugs, and why he wants to start a tribe of his own...

The Times - He brought ayahuasca to the middle classes, partied with the A-list and became a pin-up for the Burning Man generation. What next...

Time Out - If you’re a fan of explorer and TV presenter Bruce Parry, don’t miss this doc...

Radio Times - Why Tribes presenter Bruce Parry gave up sex, drugs and Rock’n’Roll...

Psychologies - It is liltingly poetic and powerfully experiential. It is a film of dizzying and shifting scope; expansive as the world and as local as the mind, which challenges human assumptions so ingrained within the context of our modern societies as to be blanketed under gathered dust, sleeping largely apart from modern scrutiny and debate...

The New Statesman - The result of these reflections is a new, feature-length film, Tawai: a voice from the forest, which sees Parry revisit the tribe that affected him most all those years ago: the Penan of Borneo.

Lonely Planet Traveller - Bruce talks about Tawai and what we can learn from the people in it (October 2017)

Sunday Papers Live - Bruce has been busy. For the past four years he has been on an exploration to find a deeper understanding of indigenous peoples and how their way of life can benefit those in the industrialised world...

Irish Examiner - Bruce Parry’s new film has the former Tribe presenter seeking to reconnect us with some of the things modern society has forgotten...

Head Talks - There’s something about the connectedness of indigenous people that nourishes mental health far better than our stress-and energy-driven existence...

RTE Radio 1 - Ex-Commando, traveller and polite house guest, Bruce Parry brought us with him to visit some of the most remote Jungle people in the world with his TV series Tribe back in the early noughties. He’s back with a more meditative movie TAWAI: A Voice from the Forest...

South China Morning Post - British explorer’s documentary gives voice to forest tribes, some of most vulnerable in the world