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1962: The People Who Live on Spurn Point | Tonight | Voice of the People | BBC Archive
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10:07Now Playing"Oh yes, there are actually people who live on this wind-blasted strip of shingle, all the time."
Julian Pettifer reports from Spurn Point - a narrow, curving sand spit stretching for three and a half miles across the Humber Estuary - on the way of life for the few, hardy souls who permanently live there.
Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 26 February, 1962.
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