Getting back to basics with Bruce Parry

Bruce Parry’s new film has the former Tribe presenter seeking to reconnect us with some of the things modern society has forgotten, writes Des O’Driscoll.

Bruce Parry shakes his head ruefully when he’s asked about his knowledge of Ireland.

He has drunk fresh cow’s blood in the Omo Valley of Ethiopia, herded reindeer with the Nenet of Siberia, and ingested mind-bending hallucinogens with tribes from Brazil to the Congo. But he’s never spent any proper time in this country.