Introducing: The Price of Paradise
The Price of Paradise
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3.9 • 547 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 3 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, the Gaskin 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, |
| 0:12.0 | skipping town and escaping to the desert island of your dreams? |
| 0:17.0 | Well, that's exactly what Jane, Phil and their three kids did, when they traded their English home for a tropical island they bought online, |
| 0:25.6 | at a bargain price. |
| 0:27.6 | And a story this promising has to be caught on camera by a reality TV crew who also spotted the islands on sale. |
| 0:35.6 | They seem really, really cheap. So you're thinking what's going on. There's something islands on sale. They seem really, really cheap. |
| 0:37.9 | So you're thinking what's going on. |
| 0:39.6 | There's something going on here. |
| 0:41.7 | But soon they discover that Paradise has its secrets. |
| 0:45.7 | Because the locals claim the island belongs to them. |
| 0:49.4 | And leading the charge is human rights lawyer Maria Acosta, |
| 0:53.6 | determined to reclaim the Pearl Key Islands for their rightful owners. |
| 0:58.0 | I was shocked. |
| 0:59.0 | These keys happened to be part of the culture and the environment. |
| 1:06.0 | And for Jane and Phil, family life is about to take a terrifying turn. |
| 1:11.6 | I couldn't believe it. |
| 1:12.6 | I mean, how many people do you know get kidnapped? |
| 1:14.6 | As this bitter conflict explodes into a national scandal, |
| 1:19.6 | Jane and Phil begin to grasp the true price of paradise. |
| 1:23.6 | Come inside the unknown You don't fire at people in that area with some kind of consequence. |
| 1:36.3 | And he says, yes, ma'am, he's dead. |
| 1:44.2 | There's pure cold-blooded terror running through me. |
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