TIRED of the only Christmas options for your dad/uncle Brian/granddad Frank being another pair of slippers or a book on the war?
Then try this for size - the original music from the 1979 BBC TV series Life On Earth.
These 16 tracks run the gamut of episodes from the groundbreaking natural history series - and it's surprisingly good. As you would expect, the pieces are relatively short, but contained within are works of almost hallucinatory beauty - particularly Arabesque For Flatworms and First Fossils - alongside lilting violin meditations just long enough to satisfy your classical itch.
With the success of Attenborough's latest Life series, the timing and the idea couldn't be better.
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