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Fascinating, revealing, profound and poetic. Television at its best.

Please thank David Malone for such an achingly beautiful programme. It is wonderful now to be able to look at the sea and understand what causes waves and the glorious sound of waves breaking.

Programmes must concentrate on the subject matter - a characteristic of inferior documentary-makers is the ego-driven tendency to push their face to the camera at every opportunity. We saw far too much of David Malone. The best documentaries have a profesional voice, pleasant and even, whom we never get to see (why should we?) reading a script that has been thoroughly planned and carefully edited. Completely unwanted is the personal history of a presenter as to why they became fascinated by the subject, and what particular points of development they have had difficulty with - in most cases these feelings will not be shared by the viewers, and are generally uninteresting, and come across as pretentious. This programme needed to be much briefer and would have benefited from more teamwork. Somebody needed to prune this down to the 20 minutes of useful footage it contained.

Beautiful pictures, interesting science and philosophy thoughtfully woven together. David Malone's films are usually far less personal and I wonder if the style this time was due to pressure from the commissioners. Definitely worth watching, anyway.

Extraordinary. Slowly unfolded into much more than a science and nature documentary and became a meditation on our life and death. The film-maker's personal loss resonated throughout the film. Poetic, complex, challenging and deeply moving.

A brilliant exploration of an offbeat subject, with the fascinating twist of the human story behind it. BBC Four's treatment of scientific subjects over the past few years has been outstanding. No amount of economies should be allowed to diminish this quality.

One of the most interesting science programmes I've seen for a long time. It had a lot of information presented simply but not in a 'dumbing-down' way. I have no problem with the personal nature of the film - the thoughtful non-scientific side is another valid level of description, and did not seem like padding to me. Congratulations on a great documentary.

Thank you David Malone and all who contributed to this beautiful programme. As a Buddhist I cherish the concept of 'life as a process', and it was wonderful to see it depicted so meaningfully.

David Malone illustrated beautifully the connection which we share with nature. Better still was an end result to the science and simplicity of relating energy to our very own existence. It gave a whole new meaning to waves crashing against the shoreline.

At this late time in life I found this programme so uplifting and easy to grasp what was being said. Top notch TV once again.

One of the best science documentaries I've seen for a long time. I could say more, but I'll content myself to extending a warm and sincere thanks to David Malone. Television at its very best.

I enjoyed the science and the historical perspective. I thought that the personal narrative and the philosophical angle made the programme memorable. The last few minutes could help the recently bereaved.

I agree the programme was both gorgeous to look at and fascinating to think about. I didn't mind Malone's personal stamp - his qualifications combined well with and informed his philosophising. Such a shame, however, that apart from his dead mum, it seems there isn't even one woman in the entire world who might have had something important to say in context. Didn't any of the programme-makers notice?

Unusually tolerable documentary, making sense at last of the dual nature of light. Not one computer graphic nor senseless sound effect in evidence. Well done.

A brilliant and thought-provoking documentary. A splendid mix of the scientific, philosophic and artistic.

I live by the sea and I have always been fascinated by waves. Never have I watched such a clever programme, informative and yet profoundly linked to our feelings and human condition. My father has just died and this programme really moved me to tears. Thank you so much Mr Malone, I felt connected to this world.

This programme captured my attention from the start, and by the end I was completely immersed in the passion for the subject. I felt the personal aspects of David Malone's presentation only served to complement the 'facts'. Those who have complained the personal twist was unwanted, uninteresting or irrelevant would do well to remember that fact does not exist in a vacuum, and that most breakthroughs in their beloved 'science' were as a result of passion, excitement and heartbreak, or other messy human emotions.

A magnificent, moving work of art. A rare, powerful and instructive blend of objectivity/ scientific observation and subjectivity/personal reflection.

This is the best film, documentary, science programme, piece of cinema that I have seen on the BBC in years.

A weak compilation of vague mysticism, loosely presented physics, competent academics probably misrepresented by the interviewer's words, lots of lovely sloshing wave scenes, and what felt like an interminable pursuit of the plausible but ultimately useless idea that waves are a metaphor for life. Pity - could have been good.

Thank you for this very beautiful film. Perhaps it's an age thing. At 46 I stood yesterday and watched an elderly man and his grandson clearing leaves in the sunshine and thought of exactly that metaphor - of a wave. And then tonight I found this on the iPlayer. I will enjoy my wave watching so much more now that I know that the sound is pure energy. Lovely.

The most inspiring and thought promoting programme I have seen for a long time. I would like to thank David for sharing his sensitivity as well as his knowledge - a beautiful balance. Please can we see more of you on TV.