In six programmes, Derek Cooper visits just a few of the 1,000-plus inhabited islands that make up the British Isles. He talks to the islanders and reflects on life-styles often very different from that experienced on the mainland.

'Had we not had revitalisation with incoming blood, we would have been a much poorer people.' Orkney has always welcomed new people and now with another lifeline - the aeroplane - it is one of the liveliest of the islands.
BBC Birmingham
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