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