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Episode 5
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Colin Stinton reads the story of the American linguist Daniel Everett, who lived among the Piraha, a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in central Brazil.
Daniel loses his Christian missionary vocation.
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Sat 22 Nov 200800:30
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