tracks

Life On Earth Begins In The Sun's Energy
First Fossils - Blue Greens - Ciliates
Comb Jellies - Hydromedusae - "Birth" Of A Medusa - Gymnopedie For Jellyfish
Coral Larvae - Arabesque For Flatworms
The Giant Clam - Slow Dance For Nudibranchs - Glaucus And Valella
The Sex Life Of The Fern - Spores, Fertilization And Growth - Pine Cones And The Petrified Forest
Coming Out Music - The Leaf Bug - The Spiny Leaf Insect Sheds Its Skin - Cocoon Spinners
Fish Of The Sea - Shoals And Loners On The Reef
Eusthenopteron And The Primeval Swamp
Nile Crocodile Family - Oral Transport For The Young
Mating Dance For Prairie Garter Snakes
Birds In Flight - Stork - Fairy Tern - Sooty Tern - Tropic Bird - Frigate Bird - Albatross
A Gallimaufry Of Small Mammals - Duckbilled Platipus Swimming - Desman Underwater - Pygmy Or (Silky Furred) Anteater And Baby - Flying Foxes - The Serval Pounces
The Big Mammals - Elephants And Their Ancestors - Lion Hunt - Wildebeeste Stampede - Lion Kill
Japanese Macaques - Warm Baths In A Snowscape
Man - A Choice For The Future Of Life On Earth?

notes

Recorded at Anvil Studios.

13 x 55 minutes episodes originally played out between 16th January and 10th April 1979.

Programme 1: The infinite variety (tracks 1, 2, 3)
Programme 2: Building bodies (tracks 4, 5)
Programme 3: The first forests (track 6)
Programme 4: The swarming hordes (track 7)
Programme 5: The conquest of waters (track 8)
Programme 6: Invasion of the land (track 9)
Programme 7: Victors of the dry land (track 10)
Programme 8: Victors of the dry land (track 11)
Programme 9: Lords of the air (tracks 12, 13)
Programme 10: Theme and variation (track 13)
Prgoramme 11: The hunters and the hunted (track 14)
Prgoramme 12: Life in the trees (track 15)
Programme 13: The compulsive communicators (track 16)

credits

Artwork – Paul Flack
Composed By, Electronics [Electric Modifications And Transformations] – Edward Williams (2)
Conductor [Orchestra Conductor] – Marcus Dods
Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Alan Snelling (tracks: 1 to 6, 8 to 13, 15, 16), Eric Tomlinson (tracks: 7), John Richards (tracks: 14)
Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Linda Hirst
Photography By – Sir David Attenborough,
Recorded By, Edited By, Mixed By, Producer – Edward Williams (2), Martin Kiszko
Remastered By – Miles Of Wonderfulsound,
Sleeve Notes – Edward Williams (2), Jonny Trunk
Violin [Solo Violin] – Pat Halling,

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