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Looking for William Bligh

The story of Captain William Bligh and his descendants on Pitcairn Island

The story of Captain William Bligh and his descendants on Pitcairn Island. A writer decided to travel to the islands after seeing a showing of the movie The Bounty. Also in the programme a new biography of John Lennon by Paul Du Noyer, War at its worst - an account has just been published of the horrors and blunders in the fall of Srebrenica, Bosnia and Will Self's novel Great Apes where chimps seem to have taken the place of humans.

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29 minutes

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project