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1972: Living and Working on the Island of Herm | Look Stranger | Classic Documentary | BBC Archive
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19:04Now Playing“You’ve got to get it into your mind before you actually settle on Herm that you cannot stay once you come to retirement age.”
The small Channel Island of Herm is just one-and-a-half miles long by half-a-mile wide. Situated three miles from Guernsey there are no cars on the island, but a number of people live and work there. In 1949 Herm’s lease was bought by Major Peter Wood, who set about developing a community there.
Look Stranger goes to Herm to meet its residents, young and old alike. Those interviewed talk about the challenges of finding jobs on such a small island and explain how some older residents need to leave Herm when they retire in order to be more financially secure.
Clip taken from Look Stranger: This Is My Island, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 29 March 1972
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