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Hemp to Hydro-electricity
Final leg of the journey down the SΓ£o Francisco river
In 1867, explorer Richard Burton canoed the length of the previously uncharted SΓ£o Francisco river in Brazil scouting for the British empire. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Brazilian journalist Paulo Cabral retraces the route, recording his own 21st-century impressions of life there.
Third and final part: from the notorius "marijuana polygon" near CabrobΓ³ to the once-great waterfalls at Paulo Afonso.
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive
This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project
