British show probes power and taboo in Polynesia
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The British Museum has given a sneak preview of an exhibition featuring two-century-old sacred Polynesian artefacts and explaining the notion of &quot;tapu,&quot; the origin of the word taboo.
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A high-profile sex-abuse trial which opens this week is threatening the future of Pitcairn Island, the remote British Pacific colony founded by the Bounty mutineers more than 200 years ago.
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The PBS documentary ÂThe Mystery of Love,Â to be broadcast on Wednesday night, serves up experts and ordinary people to investigate loveÂs many forms.
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The BBC investigates how east European women are enslaved as prostitutes by people-smuggling gangs.
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Headless bodies buried 3,000 years ago in the oldest cemetery in the Pacific could reveal much about the earliest settlers of Vanuatu, Fiji and Polynesia, Australian archeologists said on Friday.
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Six Pitcairn islanders were convicted today of a string of sex attacks, following trials that exposed a culture of abuse on the remote British Pacific territory, home to descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers.
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Britain's public broadcaster televised "Jerry Springer &#151; The Opera" on Saturday, despite appeals from church groups not to air the expletive-heavy musical.
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âSnappedâ remains among Oxygenâs highest-rated shows, having had an instrumental role in recasting womenâs television away from its celebrations of victimhood to its new fetish for female aberrance.
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'Meadowlands' follows a British family inside a witness-protection program. 'Black Grace: From Cannon's Creek to Jacob's Pillow' explores the history of an unconventional New Zealand dance troupe.
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This six-part documentary portrays the world of the brothel in terms of its hierarchies and feuds and both its inclinations and aversions toward sorority.
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A group of women on Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific are standing by their men, who face underage sex charges, saying having sex at age 12 is a tradition dating back to 18th century mutineers who settled on the island.
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When the BBC recently announced it would air "Jerry Springer: The Opera," the West End hit famous for its vulgarity and a cast of characters including transsexuals and a man wearing a diaper, no one batted an ...
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Welcome to the Princess Diana  confessional. Her butler is taking to the Australian jungle for  a reality TV show that transfixes celebrity-obsessed Britain.
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A woman allegedly raped during her childhood on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn has said men were given free rein to treat young girls as sexual playthings.
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The island of Pitcairn must cope with a precarious future as six men face imprisonment over sex charges. The men, convicted of various offences, often involving underage girls, could be jailed in a specially-built prison on the island.
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Last Wednesday BBC2 aired part one of a three part series called The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear.
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The women of remote Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific are proud they started having sex at 12 years of age and believe rape and sex assault charges against their men is an attempt by London to close their island home.