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The fascinating story of John Harrison who, in the 18th century, believed he could make a clock that would work on board a ship—and so solve the problem of finding longitude at sea.
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- E1 Part 1Next upJan 2, 2000 · 125 min
Synopsis
When the British Parliament creates an award of £20,000 to whoever can come up with a solution for determining longitude at sea, a carpenter-turned-clockmaker, John Harrison, begins his experiments to build an accurate timepiece unaffected by sea travel. His main obstacles are lack of money, a judgment Board convinced that the answer lies in astronomy and not clocks, and the mechanics of the clock itself.
Guest stars: Peter Cartwright (Army Doctor), T. P. McKenna (Edmund Burke), Alfred Burke (Rear Admiral), Jonathan Coy (Admiral Clowdisley), Christopher Hodsol (Captain Ainsley), Clare Lawrence-Moody (Staff Nurse), Clare McCarron (Nurse), John Nettleton (Minister for the Navy)
- E2 Part 2Jan 3, 2000 · 125 min
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Rallying after sickness to prove the integrity of their marvelous seafaring chronometers, the Harrisons still had to fight for official recognition, and Gould's restoration of the Harrison clockworks provides a fitting coda to this exceptional story about the thrill of discovery and the tenacity of remarkable men.
Guest stars: T. P. McKenna (Edmund Burke), Samuel West (Nevil Maskelyne), Ian McNeice (Dr. Bliss), Ian Hart (William Harrison), Bill Nighy (Lord Sandwich), Brian Cox (Lord Morton), John Leeson (BBC Producer), Nick Reding (Captain Campbell)
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Created by Charles Sturridge
Michael Gambon
Jeremy Irons
Gemma Jones
Anna Chancellor
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Peter-Hugo Daly
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