08.09.2026 • 56 Min.

What does it take to build a life on the edge of the world — and what does it take to walk away from it? St Kilda is a tiny, storm-battered archipelago 41 miles west of Scotland's Outer Hebrides, so remote that for most of its 5,000 to 4,000-year history its people were barely aware the rest of Europe existed. In this episode, Ralf opens Season 2 by taking Lina (and you) through the extraordinary way of life that isolation built — and the decision in 1930 that ended it.