Crustacean Cocktail
Narrated by ANTHONY SMITH
They range from Lobster a la Normande in smart restaurants that most of us can't afford to shrimps at a seaside stall ...
' They ' are the ubiquitous crustaceans. Wearing their skeletons on the outside and with extraordinary collections of curious limbs, they are designed to a very different specification from us.
Under the crustacean banner, the crabs and scampi which we relish on the dining-table join such seemingly diverse creatures as sandhoppers, barnacles, water-fleas and even the common woodlouse. Crustaceans may sound dull and obscure but they have adapted to such a vast range of life-styles that their world-often bizarre and colourful-is always full of the unexpected.
Producer MICHAEL SALISBURY Series editors ANTONY ISAACS and CHRISTOPHER PARSONS (Bristol)