Hi this is Islene, I'm the producer of the BBC World Service Podcast My Indian Life.

And I just wanted to let you know that the whole of our second season is now available.

From the story of the man who's desperate to be the first person on Mars to the

Kashmiri rapper making music under curfew. You'll find those and lots more

brilliant stories from young people across India by searching for my Indian life

wherever you get your podcast.

Bye. One song.

Hollywood.

Hollywood, come to my. I'm sitting on a beach watching an amazing sunset in a place called Tana in Vanuatu, an island in the South Pacific.

A group of boys are playing in the waves and women are seeing a traditional song

and dinners roasting on the fire. I'm Fiona Pepper reporting for the BBC World Service

and ABC Australia for a series of programs we are calling shifting cultures.

Where we look at the issues in the Asia Pacific affecting very different communities

as they adapt to the present, and in this case in Vanuatu how a community deals with the legacy of the past.

Here in Tana the beach is a place for cooking, for fishing and for ceremony. But the beach is also the place

where boys and young men were kidnapped, tricked or coerced onto boats. They were then

taken some 2,000 kilometers away to Australia to

the state of Queensland to work in the sugar cane fields. It happened 150 years

ago throughout Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands.

It was called Blackbirding.

I've come to Tana because it's one of the islands in Vanuatu most affected by these practices.

I've come to hear stories of that time of how the community continually struggles to live

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