Heather Couper presents an omnibus edition of her major new narrative history of astronomy. An exploration of the birth, life and death of stars, the formation of planets and the search for earth-like worlds beyond our own. The series ends by asking if there could be other lifeforms, even intelligence, out there in the vastness of space. Read by Timothy West, Annette Badland, Robin Sebastian, Julian Rhind-Tutt and John Palmer.