Actors:
Jonathan Coy - Admiral Sir Cloudisley Shovell
Actors:
Christopher Hodsol - Captain Ainsley
Actors:
Jeremy Irons - Rupert Gould
Actors:
Peter Cartwright - Army Doctor
Actors:
John Nettleton - Minister for the Navy
Actors:
Gemma Jones - Elizabeth Harrison
Actors:
Michael Gambon - John Harrison
Actors:
Nigel Davenport - Sir Charles Pelham
Actors:
Liam Jennings - Young William Harrison
Actors:
Frank Finlay - Admiral Wagner
Actors:
Anna Chancellor - Muriel Gould
Actors:
Andrew Scott - John Campbell
Actors:
Geoffrey Hutchings - Estate Manager
Actors:
John Wood - Sir Edmund Halley
Actors:
John Standing - Captain Proctor
Actors:
David Wood - Ditton
Actors:
Mark Tandy - Whiston
Actors:
Stephen Fry - Sir Kenhelm Digby
Actors:
Samuel West - Nevil Maskelyne
Actors:
Ian McNeice - Dr Bliss
Actors:
Robert Demeger - Observatory Porter
Actors:
Bill Nighy - Lord Sandwich
Actors:
Sophie Millett - Dyson's Secretary
Actors:
Brian Cox - Lord Morton
Actors:
Peter Vaughan - George Graham
Actors:
Clive Francis - Captain Digges
Actors:
Sarah Badel - Society Lady
Actors:
Alec McCowen - Sir Frank Dyson
Actors:
Stephen Simms - James Harrison
Actors:
Tim McInnerny - Christopher Irwin
Actors:
Lucy Akhurst - Nurse Grace Ingram
Actors:
Cliff Parisi - Lieutenant Draper
Actors:
Rupert Baker - Lieutenant Bertie
Actors:
Charles Gray - Admiral Balchen
Actors:
Trevor Cooper - Roger Willis
Actors:
William Scott-Masson - Lieutenant Knorvler
Actors:
William Thomas - Arthur Mason
Actors:
Ian Burfield - Jos Killick
Actors:
John Quentin - Dr. Bradley
Actors:
Alfred Burke - Rear Admiral
Actors:
Michael Cochrane - Waddington, Gould's solicitor
Actors:
Ian Hart - William Harrison
Actors:
John Leeson - BBC Radio Producer
Actors:
Nick Reding - Captain Campbell
Actors:
Peter Penry-Jones - Surgeon
Actors:
Charles Edwards - Lieutenant Seward
Actors:
Gary Waldhorn - Commodore Forrest
Actors:
Frederick Warder - Bosun
Actors:
Sasha Hails - BBC PA
Actors:
John Normington - Mr. Greene
Actors:
Pip Torrens - Captain Lindsay
Actors:
Frederick Treves - Governor
Actors:
Rebecca Clay - Observatory Assistant
Actors:
Richard Janes - Young Assistant
Actors:
Faith Kent - Lady Curator
Actors:
Nicholas Rowe - King George
Actors:
Heike Makatsch - Queen Charlotte
Actors:
John Quayle - Dr. Demainbray
Actors:
James Bradshaw - Callboy
Actors:
T. P. McKenna - Edmund Burke
Actors:
Steven Alvey - Learmouth
Actors:
Peter-Hugo Daly - John Jefferies
Actors:
Phil Dix - Lieutenant Bandelwine
Actors:
Ben Jones - Lieutenant Williams
Actors:
Emma Kay - Laura Gurney
Actors:
Rose Keegan - Amy
Actors:
Barbara Leigh-Hunt - Dodo Gould
Actors:
Kristen Lippincott - Narrator
Actors:
Roger Lloyd-Pack - Captain Man
Actors:
Clare McCarron - Nurse
Actors:
Colin McCormack - Inn Landlord
Actors:
Tobias Menzies - Halley's Secretary
Actors:
Clare Moody - Staff Nurse
Actors:
Steve Morphew - Marine
Actors:
Daragh O'Malley - Captain Bourke
Actors:
Hugh Simon - Doctor
Actors:
Joe Williams - Cecil Gould
