The Last People of St Kilda

On 29 August 1930, the most isolated community in the British Isles leapt into the headlines. The island of St Kilda had been evacuated. A hundred and ten miles from the Scottish mainland, cut off and ignored, her tiny population had been struggling to survive. Finally they had given up. In tonight's film four of the islanders, 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.