Evolution review – with this TV miracle, David Attenborough’s successor is well and truly crowned

The new BBC documentary is so wondrous and awe-inspiring it will make you feel like a child again – and in Chris Packham, it has a presenter for the ages Evolution is a coronation. With this new, five-part BBC nature documentary, the presenter Chris Packham is effectively crowned the successor to David Attenborough. And a worthy one, I think most would agree. Packham has all the great man’s passion for his subject and the willingness and ability to share his knowledge as accessibly as possibl...

By Lucy Mangan