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S01E01: Rites of Passage1800:- Young Edmund Talbot is sailing to Australia to take up a government post, on a decrepit old ship skippered by Captain Anderson, who is hostile to Edmund until he realizes that he has important relatives. Far more admirable to Edmund are Lieutenants Summer, who has worked his way up through the ranks, and the dashing Deverel. His fellow passengers number demure governess Miss Granham, the republican Mr Prettiman and artist Mr Brocklebank, travelling with his wife and daughter Zenobia - who initiates Edmund into sex - though ultimately he realizes that they are not related, merely a carnal ménage a trois. Also on board is the gauche young vicar Colley, who inadvertently breaches protocol by going onto the bridge uninvited. Ashamed he gets drunk and has gay sex with crew members before locking himself in his cabin, where, despite Edmund's efforts to bring about reconciliation, he wastes away and dies.
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Air Date:
Jul 06, 2005
Runtime:
90 minutes
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Casts:
Benedict Cumberbatch, Jared Harris, Jamie Sives, Victoria Hamilton, Sam Neill, Daniel Evans, Chris Walker, Robert Hobbs, Joanna Page, Brian Pettifer, Paula Jennings, Thomas James Fisher, Adam Woolf, Richard McCabe, Tim Delap, Vanessa Pike, Jonathan Slinger, James Alexander, Tom Fisher, Joe Vaz, Denise Black, Jonathan Pienaar, Charles Dance, Cheryl Campbell, JJ Feild, Theo Landey, Damon Berry, Daniel Newman, Calum Callaghan
