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Sounds,17 Nov 2025,33 mins,

2. Up the Hill of Difficulty

The Pitcairn Trials
Contains scenes of a sexual nature, scenes of sexual violence and scenes which some viewers may find upsetting.

Available for 308 days

Kent WPC Gail Cox is chosen as the woman to bring law to Pitcairn. She sets off to Pitcairn to teach the locals how to Police themselves. At a drunken Pitcairn party, one evening, another girl makes an allegation of rape. Detective Peter George returns to Pitcairn and a distressing and astonishing picture begins to emerge of child sexual abuse on an unimaginable scale. If you have been affected by child sexual abuse, help and support is available at bbc.co.uk/actionline

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