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Cast
Jeremy Irons (Rupert Gould)Anna Chancellor (Muriel Gould)Emma Kay (Laura Gurney)Samuel West (Nevil Maskelyne)Ian McNeice (Dr. Bliss)Michael Gambon (John Harrison)Ian Hart (William Harrison)Bill Nighy (Lord Sandwich)Brian Cox (Lord Morton)Barbara Leigh-Hunt (Dodo Gould)Gemma Jones (Elizabeth Harrison)Peter-Hugo Daly (John Jefferies)John Leeson (BBC Producer)Nick Reding (Captain Campbell)Peter Penry-Jones (Surgeon)Charles Edwards (Lt. Seward)Clive Francis (Captain Digges)Steven Alvey (Learmouth)
Director
Charles Sturridge
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Synopsis
In two parallel stories, the clockmaker John Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea in the 18th Century and the horologist Rupert Gould becomes obsessed with restoring it in the 20th Century.
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