What did the Big Bang sound like? Or Chicxulub? Tour the astonishing sonic landscapes of our world

A Book of Noises journeys back, and peers into the future. See how sound shaped the era of the dinosaurs, and how it’s altering medicine today.

Listening deeply is so important, in a time when more sounds are being destroyed than are being created, says Caspar Henderson.

“As we live through what many scientists describe as a mass-extinction event, more forms of life are dying out and the sounds they create are being lost with them.”

As a science journalist, a naturalist and an amateur musician, it was a combination of worry, wonder and curiosity that led him to take what he calls an “earwitness exploration