Einstein and Eddington

Einstein and Eddington
BBC DVD cover, featuring Andy Serkis as Einstein (top) and David Tennant as Eddington (bottom)
Written byPeter Moffat
Directed byPhilip Martin
StarringAndy Serkis
David Tennant
Lucy Cohu
Jim Broadbent
Rebecca Hall
Theme music composerNicholas Hooper
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducerMark Pybus
Running time89 minutes
Production companyCompany Pictures
Original release
NetworkBBC Two
Release22 November 2008 (2008-11-22)
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Einstein and Eddington is a British single drama produced by Company Pictures and the BBC, in association with HBO. It featured David Tennant as British scientist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, and Andy Serkis as Albert Einstein. This is the story of Einstein's general theory of relativity, his relationship with Eddington and the introduction of this theory to the world, against the backdrop of the Great War and Eddington's eclipse observations.

It was first broadcast on BBC Two on 22 November 2008.[1]


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