About this programme
17/17. Archaeologists scour the banks of the Thames to examine the site of the disastrous launching of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's SS Great Eastern in 1858. Tony Robinson joins them as the team inspects the slipways to ascertain the reason for the disaster and how it affected shipbuilding in London.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Presenter
- Tony Robinson
Crew
- Director
- Nick Gillam-Smith
- Executive Producer
- Philip Clarke
- Producer
- Nick Gillam-Smith
- Series Editor
- Jobim Sampson
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