Wondery and Forest Sounds are set to launch U.Ok. unique restricted collection “The Worth of Paradise.”
Hosted by Alice Levine (“British Scandal”), it tells the true story of two ladies battling over an island on the Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua. One is a sun-seeking Brit; the opposite a neighborhood human rights lawyer.
“One girl is swapping rural England for a sun-drenched utopia,” reads the logline. “The opposite is preventing for indigenous rights. But it surely’s a battle that can finish in kidnap, corruption and homicide.”
The story kicks off in 2000 when Hampshire-based mother-of-three Jayne Gaskin stumbles throughout an internet site promoting non-public islands. Gaskin doesn’t hesitate to commerce her village dwelling for a tropical paradise and brings a manufacturing firm alongside for the journey. The result’s one in every of TV’s earliest actuality reveals referred to as “No Going Again,” which aired on U.Ok. community Channel 4.
Maybe unsurprisingly when Gaskin arrives she realizes all will not be because it appears and the piece of paradise she bought on “tropicalislands.com” isn’t all it’s cracked as much as be, partly as a result of it’s on the centre of a centuries-old land dispute. Maria Acosta, a neighborhood human rights lawyer, quickly launches a authorized battle to reclaim the island for Nicaragua’s indigenous inhabitants however the story quickly evolves into greater than only a courtroom drama – ending in kidnap and homicide.
“‘The Worth of Paradise’ is the story of two ladies whose desires collide, in a conflict over aspiration and tradition, with each resonance and classes for as we speak,” stated Jessica Radburn, head of worldwide podcast content material at Wondery.
The collection, which launches April 22 on all main podcast platforms, is the newest in Wondery’s U.Ok. unique content material slate, together with “Ghost Story,” “The Spy Who” and “Hooked on Freddie.”
