David Attenborough

★★★★ My Field Recordings From Across The Planet WRASSE. CD

From 1954-63, the future TV titan was travelling the globe for the BBC (from Sierra Leone to the South Pacific), and when not filming Komodo dragons he recorded the people’s music for the corporation’s sound archive. Sixty tracks from a pre-media world prove the naturalist should be celebrated for more than cavorting with gorillas.