Sound tracks'Sound Tracks' tells the history of our relationship with music in 60 detective stories, each focusing on the discovery of a musical instrument in archaeological digs around the world. Taking us from the present day back to the dawn of time, long lost music is here reconstructed as we enter the worlds of its makers. We feel a child's delight at playing with a water filled pot that chirps like a bird in Peru in 700 AD; we appreciate the challenge of a

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Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends

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and structure of the social inequality that we observe every day

Miriam Margolyes is a national treasure

Including a vast array of fierce monsters

and Corporal Valentine Vere-Thissett

wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilisation

Nothing is ever lost

who regularly gets up in the early hours of the morning to try and catch sight of some of Cornwall's best hidden wildlife

or of state and commercial manipulation