Episodes
| Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Samba | 19990315 | Mark talks to musician Gilberto Gil in Rio, visits a samba school and discovers how carnival brings together rich and poor. |
| 01 | Samba | 19990315 | Mark talks to musician Gilberto Gil in Rio, visits a samba school and discovers how carnival brings together rich and poor. |
| 02 | Frevo | 19990316 | The north-east of Brazil is hot, arid and economically worse off than the south. But life still stops for carnival in Recife where the rhythm of frevo is king. |
| 03 | The Salvador Beat | 19990317 | Salvador, Brazil's original slave trading port, has the largest black population in the country. Carnival here mingles African gods and Catholicism with black pride. |
| 04 | Faro And The Rainforest | 19990318 | In the Amazonian city of Belem, carnival encompasses music parades and political theatre about the rainforest and land ownership. |
| 05 LAST | The South | 19990319 | Mark travels to Rio Grande de Sal to celebrate carnival with gauchos, German immigrants and men who dress as women. |