A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.
Paul Scofield
David Threlfall
Helen Mirren
Helen Pearce
Max Rennie
David Suchet
Jeremy Kemp
John Hallam
Barbara Ewing
Dexter Fletcher
Nicholas Jones
Joanna Bartholemew
Barbara Jefford
Fergus Rees