Michael Gambon
John Harrison
TV SERIES
Longitude
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.
Top cast
Jeremy Irons
Rupert Gould
Gemma Jones
Elizabeth Harrison
Anna Chancellor
Muriel Gould
EK
Emma Kay
Laura Gurney
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Dodo Gould
Peter-Hugo Daly
John Jefferies
Alec McCowen
Sir Frank Dyson
KH
Kevin Hudson
Lieutenant (uncredited)
Creative team
Charles Sturridge (Writer)
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Episodes
2 Episodes
011. Part 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.
022. Part 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.