In the 12-part series, the viewer can follow the first year of Father Guy’s work on the isolated little group of islands 30 miles off the western tip of Cornwall, along with many other local characters.

The programme will highlight the lives of people like: Toby the baker, who wants to take over the only pub on St Martin’s; Heike, the new German vet, struggling to make ends meet; trawlerman Martin Bond, trying to revive the local fishing industry; island boatman Fraser Hicks, whose daughter Rebecca, like so many young people on Scilly, can’t afford to live on the island of her birth; and Keri Jones, who is launching Radio Scilly, the world’s smallest radio station.

It's a special little world of its own, inspirational, beautiful, utterly dependent on the weather and the tides, and probably as full of day-to-day dramas, joys and tragedies as anywhere else on the planet.

An Island Parish began on Tuesday 8 January 2008 at 8pm on BBC 2.

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Help the Island Parish Vet
If you’ve been watching An Island Parish on BBC2 and would like to support the island vet, Heike, you may like to donate to the Islands Veterinary Support Group, which is raising money for equipment to help the islands’ animals.
See the website: www.scillyonline.co.uk/stables/vet.html