Wonders of the Solar System 31 March 2011, the series won the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in documentary film-making. The first episode illustrates how the formation and behaviour of the Sun affects each planet in the Solar System. During this episode, Cox visits India to view and explain the workings of a total solar eclipse and the partial eclipses that occur on other planets. He travels to the Iguazu Falls to relate the causality between river levels, and sunspot fluctuations. An explanation of the Earth's exposure to the power of the Sun occurs in Death Valley, California, US, with an experiment inspired
Gustav Holst Guide": "The Planets" (recordings under Boult on HMV and Nixa, and another under Sir Malcolm Sargent on Decca); the "Perfect Fool" ballet music; the "St Paul's Suite"; and three short choral pieces. In the stereo LP and CD eras numerous recordings of "The Planets" were issued, performed by orchestras and conductors from round the world. By the early years of the 21st century most of the major and many of the minor orchestral and choral works had been issued on disc. The 2008 issue of "The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music" contained seven pages of listings of Holst's works