Tracklist

A1	Life On Earth Begins In The Sun's Energy	0:37
2	First Fossils - Blue Greens - Ciliates	3:54
3	Comb Jellies - Hydromedusae - "Birth" Of A Medusa - Gymnopedie For Jellyfish	3:56
4	Coral Larvae - Arabesque For Flatworms	2:03
5	The Giant Clam - Slow Dance For Nudibranchs - Glaucus And Valella	3:29
6	The Sex Life Of The Fern - Spores, Fertilization And Growth - Pine Cones And The Petrified Forest	4:23
7	Coming Out Music - The Leaf Bug - The Spiny Leaf Insect Sheds Its Skin - Cocoon Spinners	4:06
8	Fish Of The Sea - Shoals And Loners On The Reef	2:56
9	Eusthenopteron And The Primeval Swamp	1:21
10	Nile Crocodile Family - Oral Transport For The Young	2:10
11	Mating Dance For Prairie Garter Snakes	1:49
12	Birds In Flight - Stork - Fairy Tern - Sooty Tern - Tropic Bird - Frigate Bird - Albatross	3:22
13	A Gallimaufry Of Small Mammals - Duckbilled Platipus Swimming - Desman Underwater - Pygmy Or (Silky Furred) Anteater And Baby - Flying Foxes - The Serval Pounces	5:11
14	The Big Mammals - Elephants And Their Ancestors - Lion Hunt - Wildebeeste Stampede - Lion Kill	2:38
15	Japanese Macaques - Warm Baths In A Snowscape	2:37
16	Man - A Choice For The Future Of Life On Earth?	3:43

Credits

• Composed By, Electronics [Electric Modifications And Transformations] – Edward Williams
• Conductor [Orchestra Conductor] – Marcus Dods
• Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Alan Snelling (tracks: A1 to 6, 8 to 13, 15, 16), Eric Tomlinson (tracks: 7), John Richards (tracks: 14)
• Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Linda Hirst
• Photography – Sir David Attenborough
• Recorded By, Edited By, Mixed By, Producer – Edward Williams , Martin Kiszko
• Remastered By – Miles Of Wonderfulsound*
• Violin [Solo Violin] – Pat Halling*

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 A1, 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)

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
JBH034CD	Edward Williams	Life On Earth - Music From The 1979 BBC TV Series ‎(CD, Album, Mono)	Trunk Records	JBH034CD	UK	2009
JBH034LP	Edward Williams	Life On Earth ‎(LP, Album, Mono, Ltd)	Trunk Records	JBH034LP	UK	2009