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Law of the Amazon

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It's 6am in a village deep in the Brazilian jungle and already the temperature has sailed beyond 90 degrees. Frogs groan like foghorns, the sun-kissed
Amazon glides by a few yards away and insects swoop through the rustic wooden pavilion that's doing temporary duty as a courtroom, In the first of two programmes, Clive Anderson leaves the comfort of the English legal system to go on an Amazon river journey with a judge to find out how justice is taken to some of the most remote places in Brazil - by floating COUrt. Producer Sara Jane Hall

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Unknown:
Clive Anderson
Producer:
Sara Jane Hall
Source: Radio Times

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