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Fair Isle

Open Country by BBC

Sep 18, 202528:29Science & Medicine

Halfway between Orkney and Shetland, Fair Isle is one of Britain’s most isolated inhabited islands. It's famous for knitting and birds, and those still form the basis of the island's economy, as Martha Kearney discovers....

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Fair Isle is an episode from Open Country by BBC. Halfway between Orkney and Shetland, Fair Isle is one of Britain’s most isolated inhabited islands. It's famous for knitting and birds, and those still form the basis of the island's economy...

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Published Sep 18, 2025, 28:29 long, audio available.

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