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The Real Captain Bligh

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

In the famous 1935 film of the Mutinyon the Bounty, Charles Laughton portrayed William Bligh as a tyrannical, duty-obsessed sadist. The image has stuck ever since. This dramatised reading of Bligh's diary picks up the story immediately after the mutiny, when Bligh and 18 of his crew were forced into an open launch, given five days' worth of food and water, and abandoned to their fate on the South Seas. Producer Kate McAII

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Charles Laughton
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William Bligh
Producer:
Kate McAii
Source: Radio Times

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