Wonderful Life with Stephen Fry

Wonderful Life with Stephen Fry.

Join Stephen Fry on the most wonderful journey of all.

It is the story of life on this planet, the only place we know where life has ever evolved.

Each of the 12 episodes we will look at and listen to one form of life, from microbes and invertebrates to birds and mammals, ending up with us.

As we travel you will hear stories that will tax your imagination: bacteria who make decisions; plants who count; insects that farm; fungi that eat nuclear waste; fish that live for 400 years; salamanders that re-grow their brains; birds that plan for the future and great apes that can talk and write.

 Based on the latest scientific research, it is an adventure in sound that will change the way you think about your place in the universe forever.

A SamFry Limited production for Audible Originals

Narrated by Stephen Fry

Written by John Mitchinson

Original music by Nick Wales

Sound Design and Music Editor: Norman Goodman

Dolby Atmos Mastering: Dyre Gormsen

Series Development and Science Researcher: Dr Daniel Palmer

Location recordings by Chris Watson, Izabela Dluzyk and Shaun O’Brien

Production Assistant: Naomi Fawcett

Special Adviser: Charles Perkins.

Grateful thanks to Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith

Produced by Andrew Sampson

For Audible, The Production Coordinator was Nic Dacre

The Director of Production was Hayley Nathan

The Commissioning Editor was Sam Bryant

Special thanks to:

Ed Yong, science author

Ferris Jabr, science author

Dr Rex Cocroft, Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, USA

Dr Irene Pepperberg from the Alex Foundation

Dr Bonnie Bassler, Professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, USA,

Dr Barbara Sherwood Lollar, Earth Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada

Dr Jan Sapp, Biology, York University, Toronto, Canada

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