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The Eddystone Lights by ALAN PLATER
The Eddystone Rocks are a notorious death-trap. Submerged at high tide, they lie in the path of vessels approaching Plymouth. Three hundred years ago, so many lives had been lost, it was decided the Rocks had to be marked with a lighthouse. They were ten miles from the nearest land, and no one had ever attempted such a project. But in 1699 Henry Winstanley , conjuror and theatre-owner, took up the challenge ...
Photography PETER SARGENT Film editor TED WALTER Designer DAVID SPODE Costume designer JUDY MOORCROFT Music by GEORGES DELERUE Editor
SIMON CAMPBELL-JONES Director
CHRISTOPHER LA FONTAINE

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Plater
Unknown:
Henry Winstanley
Unknown:
Peter Sargent
Editor:
Ted Walter
Designer:
David Spode
Designer:
Judy Moorcroft
Music By:
Georges Delerue
Unknown:
Simon Campbell-Jones
Unknown:
Christopher La Fontaine
Winstanley:
Alan Badel
Smeaton:
Bryan Marshall
Rudyerd:
John Hallam
John:
Peter Schofield
Matthew:
Chris Harris
Whitfield:
Wensley Pithey
Louis XIV:
Andre Maranne
Lovett:
Brian Hayes
Lighthouse keeper:
Harry Webster
Weston:
Geoffrey Toone
Box:
Norman Mitchell

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