The Dame's Mantle
When the Dame of Sark died in 1974 her Channel Islandfief passed to her grandson, an Aerospace engineer in Bristol. Michael Beaumont left the world of guided missiles to be Seigneur of a feudal outpost where descendants of the original Elizabethan settlers are still required to keep a musket for Britain's defence.
A decade on, Derek Jones finds more democracy on the island, but no divorce; and compact discs where cars and planes continue to be banned. Producer JILL MARSHALL BBCBristoL Stereo
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