EXCLUSIVE! Listen To A Score Cue By Tom Howe From Highly-Anticipated BBC ‘Parenthood’ Wildlife Series Narrated By Sir David Attenborough!

August 14, 2025

Soundtracks, Scores and More Staff

To celebrate the release of Parenthood: The Greatest Adventure—Music from the Programme on BBC, we are excited to share a cue from the first episode entitled, “Lynx,” with music by Tom Howe (“Ted Lasso”, Mulan).  Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, each episode showcases stunning animal parenting behavior from around the world with striking imagery that is matched by Howe’s vivid orchestral score.

Notes Howe: “The main theme for ‘Parenthood’ has two sections to it that can play separately or at the same time. The idea being to represent parents and their offspring apart and when together. The organic sounds used in the score also reflect the natural landscape with minimal use of synths. The score was recorded at Abbey Road over 5 days with London’s finest. The score is orchestral in nature with added guitars, banjos, mandolins and solo instruments which I played and recorded in my studio. It was a joyful project to work on.”

Sir David Attenborough narrates a the new wildlife series with new episodes airing on BBC One.  All episodes are available on BBC iPlayer.  

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Track List
01. Newborn Gorilla
02. Lions
03. Boxer Crab
04. Owls
05. Hippos
06. Spider
07. Gorillas
08. Lynx

ABOUT TOM HOWE
Tom Howe’s abilities as a multi-instrumentalist and fluency with large-scale orchestral scores, combined with his talents in writing pop and rock music, electronic sound design, and his use of modern production techniques have made him a highly sought-after composer and songwriter. Tom Howe has scored over 100 projects for film and television. His projects include Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso and Shrinking, Amazon Prime’s Daisy Jones and the Six, Focus Features’ Polite Society, Book Club: The Next Chapter, and Paramount+ series Knuckles. He has most recently scored the Dreamworks’ animated film Dog Man. 

In addition to composing music for film and TV, Tom Howe is a successful songwriter. He has written Top 40 hit songs, such as Sam Ryder’s Your Christmas To Me, which reached No. 2 in the UK chart and garnered a Brit Nomination for song of the year. He has also written TV theme songs including Shrinking’s main title theme, co-written with Benjamin Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, and the Emmy-nominated Ted Lasso theme, which he co-wrote with Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons.  

The UK native divides his scoring career between London and Los Angeles. He has composed music for several major motion pictures including Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon, Early Man, and Professor Marston & the Wonder Woman. His non-fiction television credits include iconic The Great British Baking Show, BBC’s The Mating Game, National Geographic’s Secrets of the Elephants and most recently BBC’s Parenthood.

Filmed over three years across six continents and 23 countries, Parenthood showcases astonishing, never-before-seen animal behaviours in stunning 6K ultra high definition. From the remote jungles of Bhutan to the grasslands of Botswana, each episode reveals the unique – and often surprisingly familiar – challenges faced by animal parents around the world. The stakes couldn’t be higher – success for all parents ensures the future of life on our planet.