In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.


Rodney Hallworth

Mark Gatiss
Ronald Hall

Genevieve Gaunt
'Miss Teignmouth'

Jonathan Bailey
Ian Wheeler

Andrew Buchan
Ian Milburn

Simon McBurney
Sir Francis Chichester