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Last Trip to Paradise?

When Captain Cook landed in Hawaii the natives clubbed him to death, but the blood spilt on that beach didn'deter other white men. Every year millions go to the Pacific islands, to Hawaii, Tahiti and Fiji in search of the sun, surf, grass skirts and free love: the world the ad-men tell us is paradise on earth. But it is a changing world. Land developers and international hotel chains fight to keep pace with the tourist boom. Military bases and warships mean a juke-box in every port. Atomic testing, islanders claim, is a health hazard. Jim Douglas Henry and a Man Alive film team joined the rush to the South Pacific in the hope that theirs was not the last trip to paradise.

English
  • Originally Aired December 27, 1972
  • Network BBC Two
  • Notes Is a season finale
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