Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever

you listen to podcasts. This is the Friends of History debating society. I'm John Bachelor. Golfers.

Golfers enjoy weekend matches with their friends. They play against each other.

And everywhere else in the world world this is not a problem.

Apparently there it never occurred to me that the golf course would be the one

place where you would be extra cautious about venomous snakes.

44 years old playing golf, I don't know how this happens, Jeremy,

because you're very familiar with snake risks are golfers so excited they just charge into things

and don't you know they're looking for their ball in the rough and what happens?

I think you're right John and I think it is that's exactly what happens golf was a very competitive especially here in a

sporting nation like Australia but the problem is when you charge into the rough

here in Australia you have the added danger of a snake

probably lurking somewhere and this is exactly what happened in Mount

Isa Queensland here in Australia now, Mount Island to put it in context is a mining

community right on the Queensland Northern Territory border.

So it's a very, very long way from the coast.

It's about 1800 clumbers away from Brisbane, so very much inland, very much desert. And what happened to this 44 year old he's

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