Bruce Parry

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Bruce Parry (born March 17, 1969, in Hythe, Hampshire, England) is a former British Royal Marine instructor who presents the documentary program Tribe (known as Going Tribal in the United States), co-produced by the BBC and the Discovery Channel.

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[edit] Background

Parry attended Wells Cathedral School as a boarder between 1978 and 1987. After finishing at Wells, Parry was commissioned as a Royal Marines officer at the age of 18. Soon after training, he became their youngest ever physical training and sports officer and his five year career culminated in the prestigious appointment as the officer in charge of all physical aspects of British Commando training. He left the Marines in 1993 and went on to become an expedition leader for Trekforce, before landing a job as a location manager for pop music videos. Parry eventually founded his own company, Endeavour Productions.

[edit] Television host

In the television shows that he hosts, he lives as a family member with a number of tribes in remote locales such as Ethiopia, Venezuela, Gabon, The Himalayas, Mongolia, Siberia and West Papua, sleeping, working and eating with them.

He has also been the expedition leader for Serious Jungle and Serious Desert on CBBC, the BBC channel for children. In these programmes, children from the UK are chosen to form an expedition with a particular conservation objective to achieve within a time limit. These programmes are some of the most unusual reality TV programmes because firstly they feature very young people, and secondly, although the expedition members are well looked after by a team of adults, the actual environments in which they live for the duration of the programme are hostile.


[edit] Spirituality

Parry was raised as a Christian but Parry's experiences among the tribes have led him to believe in a skeptical form of pandeism:

When I came back from expeditions, I had some experiences that made me readdress all that. I'd pretty much known all along that Christianity wasn't for me. Ever since then, I've been on my own quest to find another truth. I can't read novels, but I do read books about cosmology, about astrophysics, about genetics. I'm interested in altered states of mind, and creation myths. It's all part of the same thing - I want to know why we think what we think. Now, I'd describe myself as pan-deist, reluctantly verging on atheist.[1]

[edit] Key shows (UK names shown)

[edit] General television appearances

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Bruce Parry, quoted in Ed Caesar, "Bruce almighty; He really has been there and done that." Saturday Magazine, August 11,2007, "Bruce almighty: What drives Tribe's presenter-explorer Bruce Parry?" by Ed Caesar in The Independent (11 August 2007).
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