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Sunday Night: Sept 4

In a world exclusive, after more than a year of planning, Sunday Night spends time with one of the lost tribes of the Amazon.

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In a world exclusive, and after more than a year of planning, a Sunday Night crew become the first foreigners to live amongst a lost tribes of the Amazon, The Stone Age Suruwaha tribe.

The Lost Tribe of the Amazon
In a world exclusive, after more than a year of planning, Sunday Night this week ventures deep into the Brazilian jungle and the lawless “forbidden zone” to make contact with one of the lost tribes of the Amazon. The Stone Age Suruwaha tribe live just as they have for thousands of years, including practicing human sacrifice. Babies born with a disability, or to a single mother, are ritually buried alive or abandoned in the jungle to be eaten by jaguars. As our investigation reveals, the Brazilian government indirectly condones this killing in the cause of preservation, protecting the horrific tribal ritual by banning almost all outsiders from their ‘quarantined’ territory. Just a handful of government officials and scientists have ever been granted access – until now. Sunday Night reporter/cameraman Tim Noonan and adventure writer Paul Raffaele are the first foreigners to live amongst this ancient Indian warrior people. What the pair discover – after overcoming many dangers, is truly remarkable. Their report includes the amazing story of one child sacrifice victim who was saved by her brave mother, then smuggled from the Stone Age tribe to the 21st century. This powerful story also details how the Suruwaha have no history of cancer or ‘modern-world’ diseases and reveals the awful truth about why there are no members of the tribe over the age of 40.

September 11: A decade on
A Mike Munro investigation into the day, ten years ago, that changed the world. His report on Sunday Night reveals incredible stories of heroism and bravery never heard before about September 11. From the New Yorker who witnessed the Twin Towers attacks from his apartment next door, and now calls Australia home, to the moving final message from a pregnant wife on one of the hijacked planes, Mike meets survivors who have battled for a decade to rebuild their lives since America’s darkest day. There is the commuter town which lost dozens of residents that fateful day, to the retired firefighter who inspired President George Bush with his response to the crisis.

Stevie Nicks
The Queen of Rock and Roll opens up her home, and her heart, to Sunday Night. Stevie Nicks, despite forty top ten hits and 140 million album sales, details her toughest battle yet. Her tell-all revelations, after taking reporter Alex Cullen on a tour of her LA mansion, is her frankest interview ever. No topic is off limits as Stevie bares her soul about overcoming addictions to cocaine and tranquilizers, and how those ‘lost’ years cost her the chance of motherhood. “I’ve never told anyone this except my close friends…” she says as she recounts stories of drug fuelled binges on stage and the time she nearly died when her drug dealer tried to get her hooked on heroin. It’s a new chapter in her glittering career and Stevie, who is coming to Australia in November, sings her latest single.

Sunday September 4 at 6.30pm on Seven.

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  1. sorry – just realized first sentence should read: “Mr Knox – apologies if you felt that my comments were directed towards your information about the story.” They were not

  2. Mr Knox – apologies if you felt that my comments were not directed towards your information about the story. They were directed towards the story itself and specifically, as I noted, towards Paul Raffaele’s commentary and clear ‘hype’. I do not fault you, but rather, the so-called “adventure writer’s” ideas of what makes an educational piece, vs what is more like a “National Inquirer” article. Please do not mistake my disdain towards a “wanna-be Indiana Jones” as directed at yourself.

  3. I was rather horrified at The Lost Tribe story – not because of how the tribe lives, but because of the clear Western values that would be forced on these people if the commentators in the story had their way.
    Paul Raffaele needs to give up the hype and the “oooh – look what they do now!” scare-tactic attitude, and start being a serious writer….his comments about these people were disgusting! What next, Paul? Should we go in and “convert” them? Shall we start another Crusade? Try reading some of the work of Wade Davis, Richard Evans Schultes, or Chris Kilham, Paul…these are True writers who don’t impose their own twisted values on other peoples of the world that may live differently from the rest of us, but instead speak of the beauty, honor, and yes, down-to-earth-do-what-it-takes-to-survive attitude these people Need to have.
    The girl that said she wanted to kill Raffaele was likely just picking up his his vibes towards her that he conveyed in the story – that he thought these people were freaks rather than just people. I wouldn’t want to shake someone’s hand that clearly thought of me that way….it wouldn’t be genuine.
    (And really, how good a job are We all doing with our own Western culture? Crime, alcohol and drug-abuse, the “me-first, me-second, me-third, and everything else is for me” attitude that pervades Western “civilized” society? I think I’d rather live with the Surukaha!)
    An interesting story that makes me want to do what I can to help protect these people…but the spin Raffaele and TVTonight put on it was nauseating.
    Makes me wonder what you would have to say about the Aborigines in Australia…

    1. Dr S: Which line is my nauseating spin? I trust you realise I have published the contents of the programme from their Press Release. You’re welcome to dislike the end product of course, but don’t shoot the messenger.

  4. Infanticide has been decriminalised in most western states, so I don’t know what Seven is bleating on about. Although not usually known for its journalism, this piece in USAToday maturely explores the issues behind Seven’s sensationalist story, usatoday.com/news/world/2008-09-22-infanticide_N.htm
    Btw, the no-contact boundaries & rules for these tribes are set by the tribes themselves, and supported by the Brazilian Govt. perhaps Seven should do a piece on Indigenous Australian mortality rates before racing off to the Amazon.

  5. Sounds like a good line up, but I’m not sure about the lost tribe story, sound like something the BBC did recently, have to wait and see. I was waiting for more 9-11 stuff, pay TV is having some exclusive programing and SBS has something but not much from the commercial networks yet. And I always loved Stevie Nicks, should be a bug show right before Wild Boys.

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