Overview
Plot
What is daily life like on one of the UK's 6,000 tiny islands? This series visits exceptional enclaves, secluded sanctuaries, awe-inspiring archipelagos, and hidden havens to find out.
- Cast
- Meera Syal
- Country
- United Kingdom
- First aired
- 2024-09-25
- Studios
- Tern TV
Episodes
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Episode 1 Episode 1 On Fair Isle - halfway between Orkney and Shetland - we meet jumper knitter Marie. And we visit the uniquely beautiful Abbey Gardens on the Isles of Scilly and the minute, uninhabited Cockle Island.
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Episode 2 Episode 2 All four nations of the UK feature in this edition, with cameras touring the tiny island of Easdale in the Inner Hebrides, Northern Ireland's largest inhabited island, Rathlin, and the Isles of Scilly. Plus, the Welsh island of Bardsey makes an appearance.
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Episode 3 Episode 3 This edition takes a look at the lives of the residents of the Welsh island of Bardsey, which includes Gareth and his wife Meriel, who farm and run a small cafe from their house. Plus, exploring the Scottish island of Eriskay, which is just three miles long and one and a half miles wide, as well as the small island of Flat Holm, located just five miles outside Cardiff.
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Episode 4 Episode 4 We run around all five islands on the Isles of Scilly, meet royalty on Piel Island, get spiritual on Bardsey Island, and visit the unique island of Hirta in the St Kilda archipelago.
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Episode 1 Episode 1 This episode catches car-free Sark's four-legged taxi service and meets Inishcorkish's special pigs in the Fermanagh Lakelands.
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Episode 2 Episode 2 Station Island welcomes 10,000 pilgrims every year for a gruelling three-day fast. And North Uist has just attracted a new seaweed farmer.
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Episode 3 Episode 3 From unique wool on Iona and croft craft on North Uist, to surveying Pembrokeshire’s seals, we meet the people who live on their islands by virtue of their jobs.
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Episode 4 Episode 4
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Episode 1 Episode 1 The unique insight into island life returns! On Alderney, retired teacher Suzy is happiest manning the Channel Islands' only working railway. Lundy off the north coast of Devon has been home to handyman Ian for just a year. At the other end of the British Isles, tiny Orkney island Papa Westray is a paradise for nesting seabirds. And in Wales, Johanna and her son Billy are maintaining their strong family connection to Caldey through their work.
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Episode 2 Episode 2 The wildlife and community of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, home to the only airport in the world where a scheduled flight lands on a beach. The Scottish island of Cumbrae has a strong sense of community among the more than 1000 residents. Rutland Island, off the coast of County Donegal, was once home to a bustling herring industry. Although it's largely abandoned, and without a ferry service, islander families have returned and renovated their old homes on the 18th-century Duck Street. And in the English Channel, father and son Morgan and George show off Sark from the water.
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Episode 3 Episode 3 Exploring Rathlin Island on the north coast of Ireland, home to less than 150 people, the Outer Hebridean islands of Barra and Vatersay, Brownsea Island off the Dorset coast, which is renowned for its wildlife, and the Welsh island of Caldey, one of Britain's many sacred islands where monastic traditions still run strong.
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Episode 4 Episode 4 Exploring Tory Island in Donegal, Ireland's most remote inhabited island, Papa Westray in Orkney, the Inner Hebridean island of Iona, and the tidal island of Hilbre located where the River Dee and Irish Sea meet in Merseyside and accessible on foot for a few hours at a time with the ebb and flow of the tide.
Plot
Warning: spoilers
Our Tiny Islands Plot and Cast
The UK is home to roughly 6,000 teeny-tiny islands, ranging from exceptional enclaves and secluded sanctuaries to awe-inspiring archipelagos and hidden havens. This series explores what it is actually like to live on these small, remote outposts.
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