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Radio 4’s The Lost Sounds Orchestra reconstructed the sound of a Tyrannosaurus Rex
Credit: Emissary Filmworks
What did the world sound like before we could record it? For the vast majority of human history, every sound heard went unrecorded and unrepeated. But what if we could recreate the sounds that existed before it was possible to preserve them?
That’s the starting point for
The Lost Sounds Orchestra (Radio 4, Thursday), presented by anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota. First, she considered the most important question of all. What noises did dinosaurs make?
Hollywood dinosaurs in films usually just make straightforward roaring sounds that the film-makers have ripped off from bears or lions. These are animal noises that we already find terrifying, and film-makers want their fictional dinosaurs to scare us. But how did the real ones sound?