Overview

From Nobel Laureate William Golding's (Lord of the Flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government.

Network

• BBC One

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Edmund Talbot

  3 eps

• 

  Jared Harris

  Captain Anderson

  3 eps

• 

  Jamie Sives

  1st Lieutenant Summers

  3 eps

• 

  Victoria Hamilton

  Miss Granham

  3 eps

Themes

• based on novel or book
• australia
• miniseries
• sea voyage
• high seas
• 19th century

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