The first of two documentaries about science in Brazil
Despite massive social and economic problems including a foreign debt of 120 billion dollars, Brazil has committed herself to rapid industrial and technological development. Geoff Watts examines how
Brazilian scientists are turning the country into a sophisticated society that can build and launch its own satellites, sell aircraft to developed nations, run cars on alcohol, and perhaps re-create the wealth of the Amazonian rubber barons. Producer JULIAN BROWN