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BBC Documentaries: Season 2007

2007x55 Why Birds Sing
TV-PG

  • 2007-06-20T20:00:00Z on BBC iPlayer
  • 1h
  • United Kingdom
  • English
Why are we so attracted to the music of nature? In this documentary, David Rothenberg interviews leading birdsong scientists and musicians, including Jarvis Cocker and Beth Orton, to support his controversial idea that birds might actually be singing for the sheer joy of it. The film features a unique musical composition combining human music with birdsong, with contributions from Peter Gabriel, the Guillemots - and even an eider duck and a woodpecker:
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