About this episode

The episode explores the personal impact of the Bounty story on its descendants and the return of a historical register to the South Pacific.

For generations, the story of the Bounty has been told as an adventure - a dramatic clash between Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian. But for the descendants of those who survived, it's something far more personal. A handwritten register recording births, marriages and deaths is returning to the South Pacific after more than 170 years in Britain.

Topics covered

• Bounty
• descendants
• South Pacific
• history
• personal stories

Keywords

• Bounty
• Captain Bligh
• Fletcher Christian
• descendants
• register
• South Pacific
• history

Mentioned in this episode

Places: South Pacific

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