The jobs, jokes, relationships, responsibilities and shared experiences that have moulded the communities of the English nation have left them looking remarkably different from each other. A series of six films.
The Crown is still the Lord of the Manor and the 900-year-old Court Leet remains a symbol of the Portlander's independence and self-sufficiency. The 'island' of Portland has always supplemented its basic trades of stone-working and fishing by the windfall, whether in the form of a shipwreck or, as in the case of the latest enterprise, an opportunity to export tons of unwanted spider crabs to Spain.
Brian Trueman meets members of the close-knit families.
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