The Captain Bligh Conspiracy

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2nd October 2007 44 mins Season 6 Episode 5

An insightful investigation into the infamous chapter of maritime history known as The Mutiny on the Bounty. Mark Arundel is the great, great, great, great, great grandson of Captain Bligh, and he questions whether hero and villain status has been correctly apportioned. In films, TV dramatisations, and more than two thousand books, the popular approach has been to portray Bligh as a vicious tyrant, and Fletcher Christian, the lead mutineer, as a noble romantic. Can Mark’s findings turn popular misconception on its head?

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