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Survival Island (video)
James Gibb Stuart
£14.95

ISBN: 0-947621-06-7
size: 1hr video

VIDEO

This is the story of how an unknown sponsor, spurred by forebodings of an impending nuclear war, settles a selected group of British families on a remote but fertile island; where they will be far from the path of potential confict; and where they are to survive, even if nothing else survives. There they go through the trials and traumas of building a new society.

That anticipated global catastrophe is slow in coming, but when the islanders have to adopt a means of exchange for the furtherance of trade between them, another spectre from the Old World looms up to haunt them, and it is in the solution of this particular crisis that the legend of the Admirable MacLintock is born.

Eventually tension between the super-powers subsides, and praise be! there will be no holocaust such as their sponsor had visualised. But meantime the community has discovered a different, if no less urgent, motive for its survival, and it all makes for sixty minutes of colour, confrontation and thought-provoking entertainment.