Isles of Scilly
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Sep 13, 2026
Will DuffinGUEST
mean, rural communities anywhere, even in the UK.
Will DuffinGUEST
So, I mean, so the Outer Hebrides, Orkney, Skye, even Isle of Scilly, the coast of Cornwall, you know, they all need physicians who are relatively far from, um definitive care and they need to be able to be very self-sufficient and independent the way they practice and then the really extreme remote and offshore uh kind of uh clinicians would be on oil rigs potentially or the maritime sector working on say cruise ships and they could be out in the middle of the pacific or the atlantic they could be you know days from In fact, Medivac and it requires a very specific set of skills that I think really benefit the clinicians that work in these environments that practice extreme medicine, whatever that looks like.
Will DuffinGUEST
They're incredibly adaptable, versatile professionals.
Will DuffinGUEST
uh, and capable, uh, uh, clinicians that also generally they're incredible generalists because you have to handle pretty much whatever is thrown at you.
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Richard JohnsonHOST
Alec Douglas Hume is buried in Scotland, and it's on the opposite side of the country that his successor, Harold Wilson, was buried earlier that year in 1995 on the Scilly Isles off the coast of Cornwall, a place that we have still yet to go to, but I'm very interested in going to, not least because I would like to go to pay my respects to Harold and Mary Wilson who are buried there.
Richard JohnsonHOST
Lee, tell us a little bit about why is Harold Wilson buried on the City Isles? Wilson, of course, was known as the man from Huddersfield.
Richard JohnsonHOST
His Yorkshire identity was such a strong part of his... personal and political profile he called himself Lord Wilson of Revo or Rivers as the local Yorkshire people called Revo Abbey an old Norman Abbey in Yorkshire where Wilson believed his ancestors going back to the time of the Norman conquest lived so why turn his back on Yorkshire and choose the Silly Isles instead.
Lee EvansHOST
And he liked it so much, he and Mary, his wife, loved it so much that in 1958, they paid £200 for for a plot of land from the Duchy of Cornwall.
Lee EvansHOST
That's the lands that belong to the heir to the throne, the Prince of Wales, and built a pretty unattractive, for what it's worth, sort of three-bedroom bungalow on the edge of the main settlement, which is called Hewtown, on the island of St Mary's.
Lee EvansHOST
So the Scilly Isles is made up of several small islands.
Lee EvansHOST
And they named the house...
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Fairies are said at a distant period to have frequented Buster's Hill and St. Mary's Island, but their nightly pranks, aerial gambols, and cockleshell abodes are now quite unknown.
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Heathe's Account of the Islands of Scilly, page one hundred and twenty-nine.
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Evil spirits called fairies are frequently seen in several of the isles of Orkney, dancing and making merry, and sometimes seen in armor.
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Brand's Description of Orkney, Edinburgh, 1703, page sixty-one.
Sean LayHOST
9.11, The Saudi Connection is on the iPlayer and on BBC Sounds there's a podcast entry, a 9.11 story.
Sean LayHOST
Now, almost 50 years after the Salonian 3 was launched to ply the route between Penzance and the Isles of Scilly, it is being phased out, replaced with a new ship.
Sean LayHOST
The Salonian 3 has developed a bit of a reputation, especially among passengers without strong stomachs.
Sean LayHOST
In November, it'll be retired.
Sean LayHOST
Gavin Haynes, travel writer with The Telegraph, decided to brave the crossing while there's still time.
Gavin HaynesGUEST
The Ceylonian Three is a stalwart of the English Channel.
Gavin HaynesGUEST
It's been plying the waters between Penzance and the Isles of Scilly since 1977.
Gavin HaynesGUEST
Notoriously rough ride in choppy weather.
Jennifer Beckett WoodNARRATOR
In other parts of the Orkneys the contracting parties joined their hands through a perforation or ring in a stone pillar at the ceremony of marriage.
Jennifer Beckett WoodNARRATOR
In the Scilly Isles marriages were performed without banns or license.
Jennifer Beckett WoodNARRATOR
The nuptials were celebrated with dancing and music, and they concluded with the bride's dance at night.
Jennifer Beckett WoodNARRATOR
In the Isle of Man a superstition prevails that it is very lucky to carry salt in the pocket; therefore the natives always do so when they marry.
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Skylab's next close approach to Britain will be at half past 11 tomorrow morning.
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It'll cross the Scillies and Guernsey.
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Our science editor Peter Fairley assesses the chances of anyone being hit by Skylab.
Peter FairleyCORRESPONDENT
If anyone sold you a hat to stop bits of Skylab falling on your head, and several thousand have been sold in America, you've probably wasted your money.
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But this is very far from being the truth.
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British history begins with the record of the first voyage of the Phoenicians, who, adventuring farther than any other of their intrepid race, chanced upon the Scilly Isles and the neighbouring coast of Cornwall, and thence brought back their first cargo of tin.
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And how long ago this is, who shall say? The whereabouts of the Phoenician Barat Anak, the country of tin, remained a secret probably for ages, jealously guarded by these ancient mariners, the first true seamen that the world had ever known.
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They were expert navigators, venturing enormous distances over sea, even in King Solomon's time.
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