Paul Murton sets out to experience island life today. He uncovers the past and reveals its connections with the present, pointing to the quirky, the surprising and the beautiful lying just offshore.
Series 1 compilations - 60 minutes: foula and fair isle
Series 1 compilations - 60 minutes: rum, muck and eigg
Series 1 compilations - 60 minutes: firth of forth
Series 1 compilations - 60 minutes: gigha and jura
From foula to fair isle
Islands in loch lomond: landlocked islands
Small isles: small is beautiful
Lismore and colonsay: island pilgrimage
Islands of the forth: fortress islands of the forth
Skye: against the odds
Life at the ends of the earth
Far from the madding crowd
A new island life
So near, so far
Keeping it all together
Atlantic twins
West is best: lewis to harris
Atlantic frontier: the uists and benbecula
Island solitude: the summer isles, handa and the shiants
Islay: a race apart
West of skyfall
Northern exposure: the north isles and out stack
From berneray to pabbay: the riddle of the sands
Bridging the gap: scarp, great bernera and scalpay
Against the odds: out skerries, whalsay and papa stour
Northern skye: a land of giants and fairies
From flottay to sanday: war and peace in the north
Off the map: north rona and the monach islands
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