1971: The Man Who Owns an ISLAND | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

"The Commander's presence is noticeable everywhere. Everything is owned, or held under lease to him."
Christopher Rainbow reports from Tresco, the second largest of the Isles of Scilly, and the only one that you have to pay to land on. Everything on the Island is the property of a single private individual - Lieutenant Commander Thomas Dorrien-Smith. How has this come to be? What's it like running an island? Are his laws infringing the rights and freedoms of the island's inhabitants?
Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, 30 September, 1971.
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