Living in Foula - Home to Just 17 People Who Still Celebrate Christmas in January

Every year on January 6 — long after the rest of Britain has packed away Christmas — the people of Foula gather to celebrate it again. This tiny island at the edge of the North Atlantic has no shop, no pub, and recorded just 17 residents at the 2022 census. Yet its community has survived storms, plague, shipwrecks, and centuries of isolation while still keeping its winter festivals by a calendar Britain abandoned in 1752.

In this 4K travel documentary, discover how people live on Foula, one of Scotland’s most remote inhabited islands. Explore its dangerous sea crossing, self-sufficient way of life, ancient Norse heritage, immense seabird colonies, forgotten language, and the quiet struggle to keep the island alive for another generation.