Original version

BBC World Service East Asia

Migrated podcast image for: Outlook

Outlook

Factual: Life Stories

True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives

True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa Schedule

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

BBC World Service Online

BBC World Service schedule for American satellite radio and the Caribbean

BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

BBC World Service

BBC World Service South Asia

BBC World Service Australasia

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

BBC World Service West and Central Africa Schedule

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

BBC World Service News Internet

Outlook: Making Contact with a Remote Tribe

Magazines & Reviews

Making contact with people from North Sentinel Island (credit: Madhumala Chattopadhyay)

24/01/2019 GMT

Making Contact with a Remote Tribe

BBC World Service - Outlook, Making Contact with a Remote Tribe

The Indian anthropologist who made friendly contact with a remote Sentinelese tribe

Dr Madhumala Chattopadhyay was part of the first team of anthropologists to make friendly contact with the remote Sentinelese tribe in the Andaman islands.

In November 2018, the Sentinelese tribe in the Andaman Islands hit the headlines after an American missionary was killed by arrows as he attempted to approach their isolated island. Very few people have come close to this remote community, but one person who has is Indian anthropologist Dr Madhumala Chattopadhyay. She was part of a team from the Anthropological Society of India who made friendly contact with the tribe in 1991.  She tells Rihanna Dhillon about their extraordinary trip.

Jim Nollman is what's known as an "interspecies musician". A guitarist, he was playing in his backyard when a turkey started responding to his music...and the  recording he made became a hit! Since then he's spent decades playing music to creatures like wolves and whales, and recorded their surprising responses.

Dr Ricardo Pun is a man on a mission. For years, he witnessed families in Peru who couldn't afford a place to stay while their children were in hospital. Shocked by the conditions they were forced to endure, he decided to build a place where families whose children had been diagnosed with cancer, could sleep and rest while they were getting treatment. 

Image: Making contact with people from North Sentinel Island
Credit: Madhumala Chattopadhyay

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Outlook

Making Contact with a Remote Tribe

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC World Service East Asia

About BBC World Service