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The Forum: The Real Pirates of the Caribbean

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The Real Pirates of the Caribbean

14/10/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - The Forum, The Real Pirates of the Caribbean

The story of the men and women who defined the ‘Golden Age’ of piracy.

Prominent international thinkers debating big ideas.

They are familiar figures in folklore and popular culture, swashbuckling across the silver screen, snarling on stage as pantomime villains or committing daring deeds in childhood literary classics. But who were the real life pirates of the Caribbean and how much of what we think we know about them is based on fact?  Rajan Datar is joined by maritime historian David Cordingly, academic and author Margarette Lincoln and author Laura Sook Duncombe who has written about pirate women.

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