Produced by Sarah Blunt, for the Natural History Unit.

Six 15-minute monologues:

• For a periwinkle (Bill Wallis)
• A hermit crab (Geoffrey Palmer)
• An anemone (Alison Steadman)
• A goby fish (Greg Proops)
• A limpet (Judi Dench) and a lug-worm (Tony Robinson). The limpet was shortlisted for a Sony Drama Award in 1997

In 2012, new recordings for Radio 4 were made in front of a live audience at the More Than Words festival in Bristol, with Samantha Bond and Sean Power taking over as the limpet and the goby fish.