Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making

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Inferno saw Chris Packham exploring one of the darkest periods in Earth's history with the worst mass extinction known to the planet, resulting in the death of 90% of all species. Earth selects five cataclysms from history where our planet's future hung in the balance, condensing over 4.

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It’s when you lose contact with everything, and no matter what people say to you, it’s not about them any more.

Presented by Springwatch host Chris Packham, the BBC Two series sees the broadcaster use CGI and cutting-edge science to unveil the secrets of the huge highs and lows that Earth has experienced. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. The section on extinction is heartbreaking yet hopeful, and for me eye-opening: “We have an odd relationship with extinction… the truth is, life thrives off it. His thesis is that extinction boosts evolution; losing most of the life on Earth enabled everything we know now to exist.

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Had he seen the Ken Loach film Kes, about the troubled boy who trains a kestrel and finds a purpose in life? Chris Packham and Andrew Cohen have come together to tell a story, one that should be read and heard by all. My management technique, which was one of utter self-protection, was to not engage with anyone of my age at all.Earth: Over 4 Billion Years in the Making, the companion book by Chris Packham and Andrew Cohen is out 20th July. Growing up, the outspoken TV presenter became obsessed with animals as he struggled to navigate a world in which he felt he didn’t fit. A piece of pumice thrown several miles into the air by a volcano helps to explain what happens when tectonic plates collide. The book is structured around an imaginary journey that takes the reader from the inner core to Earth's surface (including both land and oceans) and up to the top of the atmosphere.

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It’s spotless, hi-tech, somehow both minimalist and maximalist at the same time – lots of empty space between all the stuff. Chris Packham’s confidently grand new series Earth, a guide to “five pivotal moments” in the planet’s history, might look like an exception, since its first episode is set 252 million years ago. We can find out anything on the internet now but there is nothing like a good book to make learning feel so much more special.We saw important fossils such as the first flower fossils, and when I put my hand where a dinosaur once put its foot, the romantic in me was easily stirred. The extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago paved the way for the eventual evolution of early humans. He grew up in Southampton, with a marine engineer father and a mother who had a range of jobs, including legal secretary.

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A trip round the beaches, dunes and groves of the Canaries, with Packham looking sharp in a brown Fred Perry polo buttoned right up, plus a jaunt to Italy – in taupe Fred Perry, buttoned right up – does the job. Earth is a five-part BBC series led by Chris, who tells the four-billion-year story of planet Earth "from its dramatic creation to the arrival of human life. He might not be able to look me in the eye, yet he’s one of the most disarmingly open people I’ve met. CHRIS Packham has been hailed as the new David Attenborough for his new BBC show, but for some, it was difficult to watch for one reason. A beautiful, fact-filled picture book and a perfect introduction to the natural world for all young nature lovers.In October 2021, a Land Rover was blown up outside Packham’s house, destroying the gates to his property. After the surface eruptions stopped, magma that remained underground, not ostensibly incinerating any flora or fauna, burned up coal reserves that created yet more CO2, and set fire to salt that pumped halogens into the air, dissolving the ozone layer and subjecting pollen to mutations caused by unfiltered UV rays. If we’re doing something like Springwatch, it’s not brain surgery; nobody ever dies because you messed something up on television.