Listen Now: The Price of Paradise
British Scandal
Wondery
4.5 • 6.4K 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 | Okay, unless I think we need to address the elephant in the room. |
| 0:03.0 | Okay. |
| 0:04.0 | You've been cheating on me? |
| 0:06.0 | I have been cheating on you, but for such a good reason. |
| 0:10.0 | Okay, that's fine then. |
| 0:12.0 | I am doing another podcast for Wondry, but I think you will approve because it is the kind of story that we would cover in British scandal. |
| 0:19.0 | It's at times funny, at times heartbreaking, at other times genuinely petrifying. |
| 0:25.0 | So you've basically cheated on me with |
| 0:28.0 | something exactly the same. |
| 0:29.0 | Okay, yeah that makes it sound worse. |
| 0:31.0 | Let me explain. |
| 0:32.0 | So this story is called the Price of Paradise, and it's so unbelievable, it's actually a real story. It all kicks off in the year 2000 when Jane and her family discover the website tropical islands.com and they realize that they can buy a tropical island. |
| 0:46.8 | They can sell their house in Hampshire and buy their perfect paradise and it is its white sand it's blue sea it's palm trees so they |
| 0:55.4 | upsticks and they leave. Okay I understand what you see in this show I won't deny |
| 1:01.2 | that I have a level of attraction for it so I totally see where you're |
| 1:04.2 | coming from but if it really is like British scandal there's got to be a twist |
| 1:08.1 | coming. There's not only one twist there are several it's a story packed with surprises, with shocking details and also with moments where you just can't tear yourself away. |
| 1:19.2 | So as you guessed, Paradise is not quite what it seems. They arrive, they get attacked by |
| 1:24.1 | sandflies, they realize that the hut that they've got to live in as a family of five |
| 1:27.2 | is basically a pile of planks on the sand, and then on one of their first nights |
| 1:31.4 | on the island, they hear a boat and they realize that |
| 1:34.7 | their island which they now call home is used as a stop-off for drugs runners. |
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