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Offshore Britons

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In the first of seven programmes, Derek Cooper travels around the coast-line to visit just a few of the 1,000-plus inhabited islands that make up the British Isles. He talks to the islanders and reflects on lifestyles often very different from those experienced on the mainland. 1: The Islands of Yesterday
' The islands cannot be separated from their past.' Are there lessons to be learned from history about one of the most worrying problems of island life ... emigration? Depopulation was at its most serious in the 19th century and there could be pointers for today in a study of the Hebrides in the 1840s and 50s.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham

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