Longitude and tuning derived from pi for the Millennium

The following was published in The London Times on Monday 23rd Aug. 1999
page 4 News

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Channel 4 clocks on with bestseller to mark Millennium

LONGITUDE, the surprise bestselling book, which made Dava Sobel, its
author, a millionaire, has been turned into a six million pound
television drama to mark the millennium.
Jeremy Irons and Michael Gambon star in the story of John Harrison, an
18th-century English clockmaker who solved the problem of global
navigation by building the first virtually friction-free chronometer
with which a ship's position could be calculated to within a few miles.
The book which topped the Christmas bestsellers list in 1996, appealed
to non-seafarers because of its fascinating portrayal of the political
intrigue and academic backbiting of the time. The four-hour drama for
Channel 4 has been directed by Charles Sturridge, who was also
responsible for such classic TV series as "Brideshead Revisited" and
"Gulliver's Travels".
Channel 4 commissioned "Longitude" as part of its line-up of themed
programmes to mark the new millennium. It tells how the Government was
so desperate to reduce the number of sailors' deaths at sea through poor
navigation that it offered a 20,000 pound reward for anyone who could
convince the authorities that they had found a solution.
Harrison, portrayed as a lonely genius, struggled for recognition
against cranks, one of whom believed longitude could be derived from the
yelps of injured dogs.
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For the musical scenes the Oxford Magdalen College Choir
(http://www.magd.ox.ac.uk/hymnus.html) was trained to sing in the tuning
which Harrison advocated, using 256 Hz as the tonic for C, and intervals
derived from pi.
Damian Law and I acted as consultants for this tuning in the spring this
year
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