Listen Now: The Price of Paradise
Against The Odds
Wondery
4.7 • 7.2K 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 quitting your job and escaping to the desert island of your dreams? |
| 0:05.6 | Pretty much every time I'm stuck in traffic and also when the weather sucks or if I'm watching YouTube and I can't skip the ads. |
| 0:12.8 | Boy, do I have a story about a woman who did just that? |
| 0:17.1 | Her name is Jane, and along with her partner Phil and their three kids, |
| 0:21.5 | she swapped her four bedroom English home for a tropical island, |
| 0:25.7 | which she bought online at a bargain price. But soon they all discover that Paradise has its secrets. Because the locals claim that the islands belong to them. |
| 0:37.0 | And they say it's been sold illegally. |
| 0:40.0 | And for Jane and Phil, family life is about to take a terrifying turn. |
| 0:44.4 | Oof, sounds like they're about to learn the price of Paradise. |
| 0:48.3 | That's the name of the podcast. |
| 0:50.3 | How did you know that? |
| 0:51.4 | Well, I can see that it's written on the script. |
| 0:53.7 | Ah, well, the price of Paradise is a real life story of an island dream |
| 0:59.1 | that turns into a living nightmare, one which leads to kidnap, corruption, and murder. |
| 1:05.6 | I'm about to play you a clip from the first episode. |
| 1:08.1 | If you like what you hear, search and follow the Price of Paradise wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 1:13.7 | Midnight in Paradise in Paradise in Paradise in Paradise. |
| 1:25.0 | Endless stars and hot humid nights. |
| 1:29.0 | A remote island off the coast of Nicaragua, |
| 1:33.4 | an island that's been home to an English family from Hampshire |
| 1:36.8 | for the past seven months. |
| 1:39.3 | And for Jane Gaskin, this island has become her dream, her destiny. |
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