Drama

Longitude

7.0(5)

First Aired:January 2, 2000

Seasons:1 season

Episodes:2

Status:Ended

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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Cast

Michael Gambon

John Harrison

Jeremy Irons

Rupert Gould

Gemma Jones

Elizabeth Harrison

Anna Chancellor

Muriel Gould

Emma Kay

Laura Gurney

Barbara Leigh-Hunt

Dodo Gould

Peter-Hugo Daly

John Jefferies

Alec McCowen

Sir Frank Dyson

Kevin Hudson

Lieutenant (uncredited)

Seasons & Episodes

E1Part 1

125m

Jan 2, 2000

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.

E2Part 2

125m

Jan 3, 2000

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.

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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.

Longitude

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