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Transcript: 'Lost Paradise': The Dark Secrets Of Pitcairn Island
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TERRY GROSS
NPR Fresh Air
04-28-2009
'Lost Paradise': The Dark Secrets Of Pitcairn Island
Host: TERRY GROSS
Time 09:00-10:00 AM
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TERRY GROSS, host:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross.
The mutiny on the ship the Bounty is a tale told in several movies, but many people don't realize that the story is based on a real event and that Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers fled with some Tahitian women to a remote island in the South Pacific. They never left, and the descendents of Christian and his mates still live on Pitcairn Island, which has come to be regarded by many as a tropical paradise.
But my guest, journalist Kathy Marks, said there was a dark and sinister side to the ...