TV reporter John Doyle visits one of the inhabited Isles of Scilly, Bryher meaning hills in Cornish. The concern is depopulation. Life on the isle used to be based on subsistence farming but measures to encourage tourism have today reversed the trend. After jumping ashore from a gangplank of a small open launch called the Guiding Star, Doyle gives us his full appreciation of the Isle in 1973. The launch was built in 1933 in Cornwall's Portloe and is run by the Badcock family.