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THE LIVING WORLD
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Sunday 06:35-07:00
The Living World听is a gentle weekend natural history programme, which aims to broadcast the best, most intimate encounters with British wildlife.
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Listen to听16 January
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CHRIS SPERRING
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Sunday听16 January听2005
The Living World

Old Red Sandstone

Chris Sperring takes geology scholar and enthusiast Brian Williams back to his homeland of Pembrokeshire, Wales, to re-unite him with his 450 million year old friend. Walking along the Pembrokeshire coast path you arrive pretty quickly at a substantial stretch where the cliffs and pebbles on the beach are terracotta red. These simply stunning rocks come alive when you're guided by Brian Williams.

Williams takes Chris Sperring down gullies which turn out to be old rivers and ponds of millions of years ago filled with ash from the plume of a gigantic volcano that exploded just 100 miles to the west. On the rocks are the fossilised casts of animal burrows, tracks of animals and amazingly trails of dung. Williams and Sperring read the rocks like a natural history book, recreating the life and times of ancient animals who died and left a post card of their life.
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