Review : Our man Attenborough

The BBC realised that it would take no less an individual than David
Attenborough to make fossils seem interesting. In the video Lost Worlds,
Vanished Lives (BBC, £19.99, 158 minutes), Attenborough takes dull
palaeontology and breathes life into it. Dinosaurs walk, trilobites shuffle and
mammoths charge. With the full weight of the BBC’s production values and a huge
budget, you can see why it was a big TV hit in 1989. And Attenborough is truly
inimitable.