Luke Jones

Luke Jones is the host of The Pitcairn Trials podcast. He hosts news and current affairs programmes for the BBC World Service and The Story podcast for The Times and Sunday Times.


Halfway between South America and New Zealand is a small piece of volcanic, British territory; Pitcairn. It has one shop open for a few hours a day, it’s accessible only by boat, it was born out of Naval mutiny in the 18th Century, it’s home to around 45 British subjects...and an almighty scandal.