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Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2024

⏱️ 8 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

Hannah, have you felt like quitting your job and escaping to the desert island of your dreams?

0:04.8

Only every time I'm stuck in traffic or when the weather is miserable or where I'm fighting for my life in the dark,

0:10.0

or I'm watching a YouTube ad with a no skip button.

0:13.0

Tell me about it and boy do I have a story about a woman who did just that.

0:18.0

Her name Hannah is Jane.

0:20.0

And along with her partner Phil, her three kids and a reality TV crew, she swapped her four bedroom English home for a tropical island, which she bought online at a bargain price.

0:31.0

Get it, Jane, what a hero, an icon, a legend.

0:34.2

But soon they all discover that Paradise has its secrets.

0:37.8

No, Jane, how did you not see that coming?

0:39.8

Red flags, who gets an island for a bargain price. Things get bad because the locals on the

0:44.8

island claim that the land actually belongs to them and they say that it's been sold

0:50.3

to Jane illegally. So for Jane and Phil, family life is about to take a terrifying turn.

0:56.8

Sounds like Phil and Jane are about to learn the price of paradise. That's the name of the

1:01.7

podcast. How did you know, Hannah? It's in the script and I can read with my eyes. I even brought my glasses today.

1:08.8

Excellent work. So yes, Hannah has ruined it slightly, but here we go. The Price of Paradise is indeed a real life story of an island dream that turns into a living nightmare, one which leads to kidnap corruption and murder.

1:24.0

Now we're about to play you a clip from the very first episode and if you like what you hear

1:28.0

search and follow the price of paradise wherever you listen to your podcasts. Midnight in Paradise in Paradise in Paradise.

1:44.0

Endless stars and hot humid nights.

1:48.0

A remote island off the coast of Nicaragua,

1:52.0

an island that's been home to an English family from Hampshire for

1:55.5

the past seven months.

1:58.1

And for Jane Gaskin, this island has become her dream, her destiny.

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