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In 1768, Captain James Cook and 93 men embarked on a journey to the Southern Hemisphere, and more than 230 years later, a 21st century crew set off on a new adventure. Their task for six weeks is to retrace a leg of Cook's first epic voyage on a full-scale replica of his ship the Endeavour. Their journey will take them along the north east coast of Australia and, they hope, across the Timor Sea to Indonesia.
Programme 1 - Heading Out
The 41 volunteer recruits get their first glimpse of the Endeavour at anchor off Mission Bay in north-eastern Australia. On board, no one except the permanent crew can believe quite how cramped the ship is. They'll be eating, sleeping and relaxing in a tiny communal space.
As the permanent crew teach the new recruits the ropes, a motorboat protest by local Aborigines reaches the Endeavour and causes one participant to re-examine the reasons why, as an Aborigine, he should be on board at all.
Programme 2 - Grief On The Reef
The ship approaches the terrifying Endeavour reef - the bank of coral that ......
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