Longitude

2000 - 2000

Part 1

2nd January 2000

Episode 1

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.

Part 2

3rd January 2000

Episode 2

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.

Top Cast

Michael Gambon•Jeremy Irons•Gemma Jones

Writer

Charles Sturridge

Drama

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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Full Cast

Michael Gambon

John Harrison

Jeremy Irons

Rupert Gould

Gemma Jones

Elizabeth Harrison

Anna Chancellor

Muriel Gould

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Emma Kay

Laura Gurney

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Dodo Gould

Peter-Hugo Daly

John Jefferies

Alec McCowen

Sir Frank Dyson

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Kevin Hudson

Lieutenant (uncredited)

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James Foster

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Jeremy Woodhead

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Gemma Waugh

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Demelza Rogers

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Helen Barrett

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Shirley Russell

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Chris Lowe

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Eileen Diss

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Celestia Fox

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Peter Coulson

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Peter Hannan

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Geoffrey Burgon

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Antony Root

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Delia Fine

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Pippa Cross

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Selwyn Roberts

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Charles Sturridge

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