The Pitcairn Trials
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Your Questions Answered
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Luke Jones takes you behind The Pitcairn Trials, to answer some of your most-asked questions. We hear how he navigated interviewing Glenda, who grew u...
The Aftermath
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Guilty men of Pitcairn received remarkably short prison sentences. Some on the island, sent to the luxury jail they helped to build. Some received...
Taking a Stand
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Glenda takes the stand. Through interviews and court transcripts, we examine the Defence team’s arguments, and the legal debates that surrounded the...
White Wigs and Red Dirt
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Judges, lawyers and a press pack make the long journey to Pitcairn and the trials begin. Journalists are summoned to a meeting of all the women on the...
Order, Order
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Despite immense pressure to withdraw their testimony, key witnesses for the prosecution are secured. A campaign to undermine the victims to withdraw f...
Glenda, A Survivor’s Story
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Luke Jones meets Glenda at her home, in the UK. Glenda grew up on Pitcairn but now lives in the UK. She was abused growing up but told no one, un...
Have you Ever Wanted to Disappear?
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the history of the Island of Pitcairn, its myths and realities? Born from the 1789 Mutiny, the mutineers, led by Fletcher Christian stumble ac...
Up the Hill of Difficulty
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kent WPC Gail Cox is chosen as the woman to bring law to Pitcairn. She sets off to Pitcairn to teach the locals how to Police themselves. At a drunken...
Paradise, Lost
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Kent, UK, Police Officer Peter George is asked to investigate an alleged serious crime: the rape of a child. The crime is not in England but on the...
Introducing: The Pitcairn Trials
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Halfway between Peru and New Zealand is a tiny volcanic island, a little known British Territory. The community of Pitcairn is home to 37 people ...