The Story of Earth

Narrated by Rachel Ward

Stunning and complex visualizations based on the latest scientific modelling will take audiences back in time to the origins of our planet as we explore the extraordinary chain of events that made life not only possible but sustainable.

Journey forward to today, to meet a team of geologists travelling the globe looking for clues that help us piece together what is, as far as we know, a unique story in our universe.From the remote rock formations of the Pilbara region of Western Australia, some of the oldest on earth, to the dramatic volcanic rock formations of Iceland, some of the earth’s newest rocks, we discover how earth was formed and what extraordinary conditions combined to make life possible.