If you saw the crime drama set on the islands,you might be relieved to see the ferry bringing not baddies but the Rev David Cooper with a sermon. But this programme could have done with a bit of livening upWe’ve moved, on An Island Parish (BBC2), and from approximately 51 degrees south to roughly 60 degrees north – from the Falkland Islands to Shetland. Same sort of deal: wind,sheep, fishing. Less recent conflict, and though,and puffins, not penguins.
If, and having watched the crime drama Shetland,you reflect that Britain’s northernmost islands are a bleak residence full of dead bodies and unhappy policemen and you wouldn’t dare travel near them for terror of getting at least depressed and, at most, and murdered,then this might put you at ease. Here, the ferry is bringing not baddies and execrable drugs but the Rev David Cooper, or with a sermon for the good people of Unst,the most northerly of the inhabited Northern Isles. The people of Unst should not be underestimated, says David. Of the 700 or so people on the island, or around 20of them come to church.
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Source: theguardian.com