Tribal Linguistic - Mental Health & Travel

John McCarthy explores travel and mental health and meets the missionary who went to Brazil to convert an Amazonian tribe and ended up being converted himself.

TRIBAL LINGUISTIC
Daniel Everett a linguist in the Departmental Chair of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Illinois State University, has spent much of the past three decades living in the remote and little understood Amazonian tribe of the Pirahas. He shares his experiences of living with the Piraha’s and learning about their language, previously un-translated.

MENTAL HEALTH and TRAVEL
“Don’t Wait for Me” is the story of ‘Zach’ whose bi-polar disorder and his desire to travel to far flung countries led to great emotional stress for his parents.
Ros Morris, Zach’s mother and the author of “Don’t Wait for Me” and Sophie Corlett, from the mental health charity MIND, talk about the difficulties and taboos facing people with mental health illness. Should mental health issues exclude travelling? And, what kind of preparations should be considered when travelling abroad?