Exactly 41 years ago today, on 29 August 1930, the most isolated community in the British Isles leapt into the headlines. The island of St Kilda had been evacuated. One hundred and ten miles from the Scottish mainland, for years cut off and ignored, her tiny population had been struggling to survive. Finally they had given up.

In this film four of the islanders, as well as the resident nurse and the missionary's daughter, describe life on the island in those last years and the events which led up to the evacuation.