This time we are off to Tahiti, an island, well the most important island probably, in French Polynesia.

French Polynesia is a self governing territory of France.  Indeed, there is talk of a referendum to allow independence from France.  This will probably eventually happen.  Historically the islands were annexed to France without France even knowing about it, which says something about global communications in the early 1800s.  We have a (somewhat distant) connection to Tahiti, as Capt James Cook explored the island, and he also explored the region where Corner Brook NL is today.  We lived in CB, so there you are...

We talked quite a bit about Paul Gauguin, who famously moved to Tahiti.  We were looking forward to discussing his work in Tahiti, then, well, we saw the book (his journals) that Isabelle ordered.  He married a 13 year old child while there, then if that was not bad enough, he turned around and left her.  This lead us to a discussion of moral relativism, and well, a discussion of how disgusting we thought Guaguin was as a human.  What do you think?

We recorded this one just after Christmas, so we would like to pass on holiday (whatever holiday you celebrate) greetings to all of our listeners.

Don’t forget to visit Bring Da King to bring James Whittingham to PAB 2008.

Next time it is off to Italy!