Narrator: Fair Isle – Britain's most ____, inhabited island. It's an extraordinary place to live. Man1: There are so many moments when you walk outside, or you even stand in the window on a ____ day, and you just say "wow!" Narrator: But life here is not for everyone. It can be ____ for days at any time of the year, there is no power at night, and just one small shop. Every able-bodied adult holds down several jobs just to keep the island going. But its population is at a ____ point. If we lose two or three more families, then the population crashes and that would be utter ____ for a remote place like this. Narrator: Once, almost 400 people lived here. Now there are 57. Two of them, Sean and Rachel, moved here just five months ago. Getting here cost them their life savings. R: It was a leap of faith. It was a massive leap of faith, I think, on both our parts to come here together, y'know, with everything. Narrator: The island needs people like them to ____ roots if it's going to survive. Woman1: Sometimes you'll be having a day when you think what am I doing here? Usually being ____ is a punishment for things. So sometimes I question that. And then other times, I kind of feel, God, aren't we lucky. I think you're aware, as well, that there's no half-measures here. If you decide to ____, you can't just come back. That would be your place gone. B: Fair Isle is a very small ____ at the top of the United Kingdom. It is halfway between these two groups of islands called the Shetland Islands and the Orkney Islands. It is three miles long and one and a half miles across, and it is Britain's most remote ____ island. And it's on its own. Narrator: The National Trust for Scotland bought Fair Isle in 1954. 57 people live here, running 18 crofts and all the island's essential ____. W: This is a working island. It's not a ____. It's a place where we live and if we want anything doing here, we have to do it for ourselves. Narrator: Sean and Rachel are both ex-military and are ____ to adapt to island life. Rachel is a finisher for one of the island's knitters and Sean's a much-needed crew ____ on the island's ferry. Sean and Rachel had been together three months when they applied to live here. R: Since we've been here, I think, you know, we've had our ____. You know, we are still a very new ____, and we've only just been together a little over a year. You know, if a relationship wasn't working somewhere else, you could just pack the car and go and leave. Here I guess you have that added, you know, it's not that easy. Narrator: And they're yet to face their first winter on Fair Isle.

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