Paul Archer

Paul Archer writes and records Letters from Brazil for Rhyd Media — dispatches on Instagram, YouTube, and the podcast.

A working lunchbox of rice, beans and meat being warmed on a small kitchen stove in a São Paulo home.

The Marmita

A builder's lunchbox, a cleaner's small kindness — and what they stirred up about effort, fairness, and the accident of where we are born.

6 min read

A father and son in football kit on a Brazilian pitch at dusk, the boy mid-stride with a ball.

Learning Football at Forty-Six

What a football-obsessed eight-year-old in Brazil is teaching his rugby-raised English father about belonging.

9 min read

Paul and Andrew on the first filmed Letter from Brazil.

Too Broke to Fly Home: Six Years Trapped in Brazil

Paul sits down with Andrew — an Australian who came for love, got financially "trapped," and twenty years later still hasn't managed to leave for good.