David Attenborough’s Wonder of Song
Although this magazine is usually dedicated to the sounds of the concert hall or recording studio, this month we join David Attenborough to explore the music of the natural world.
Attenborough will travel from the bird-filled forests of Australia to the depths of a humpback whale home in the South Pacific to hear the animal orchestras that fill our world with noise. He will meet the world’s top sound recordists to explore their archives of recordings made during his 95-year lifetime, with songs by lemurs, whales and lyrebirds. He will also hear which landscapes have now fallen silent, due to human’s influence.
Birds are the singers we think we know the most about, but Attenborough will explain that everything that underpins what we know about birdsong might be wrong, as scientists discover more about the complexities of female birds’ voices. BBC One: date and time tbc