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Blood Ties

Listen Now: The Price of Paradise

Blood Ties

Wondery

Fiction, Blood Lines, Josh Gad, Christian Navarro, Dolby Atmos, Drama, Atmos, Bloodlines, Dolby, Gillian Jacobs

4.413K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

When ex-Bunny girl Jayne Gaskin spots the desert island of her dreams for sale online, she decides to risk it all. Trading in their English village home, Jayne and her family relocate to their own private paradise, just off the coast of Nicaragua. And a reality TV crew follows them to film a new show, No Going Back. But soon they all discover that paradise has its secrets. The locals claim the island belongs to them, and it’s been sold illegally. Jayne’s not leaving without a fight. A fight that will soon turn deadly.


Hosted by Alice Levine.


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0:00.0

Have you ever felt like starting again, quitting your 9-to-5, skipping town and escaping to the desert island of your dreams?

0:08.0

Well, that's exactly what Jane, Phil, and their three kids did when they traded their English home for a tropical

0:15.0

island they bought online at a bargain price. But soon they all discover that

0:20.0

Paradise has its secrets because the locals claim the islands belong to them and

0:25.1

they say it's been sold illegally. From Wundry this is the price of Paradise

0:29.9

the real life story of an island dream that turns into a living nightmare,

0:35.0

one which leads to kidnap, corruption, and murder.

0:38.0

We're about to play you a clip from the first episode.

0:41.0

If you like what you hear, search and follow the price of Paradise wherever

0:44.9

you listen to Podcast. Or you can binge the entire season, ad free, by subscribing to Wonderie Plus,

0:50.6

in the Wonderie App or on Apple Podcasts.

0:53.2

Midnight.

0:56.2

Midnight in Paradise. Midnight in Paradise in Paradise, endless stars and hot humid nights.

1:09.0

A remote island off the coast of Nicaragua, an island that's been home to an English

1:15.2

family from Hampshire for the past seven months. And for Jane Gaskin, this island

1:22.0

has become her dream, her destiny. There's no going back, she says.

1:28.0

Even if it all goes wrong and they end up penniless.

1:32.0

But now, as Jane looks at her three children and her partner Phil,

1:37.0

it's clear that something has gone terribly,

1:40.0

terribly wrong.

1:42.0

The Gaskin family is huddled together in a small fishing boat in the

1:46.2

middle of the night dressed in soggy pyjamas shivering and looming over them three masked men.

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