The popular natural history series will once again be narrated by Sir David Attenborough and will be scored by Zimmer. Zimmer, who also created the music for Planet Earth II, will also compose the theme and score for Sir David's new BBC series alongside Jacob Shea and Dave Fleming, his co-composers in music production company Bleeding Fingers.

Yorke said: "Bloom was inspired by the original Blue Planet series so it's great to be able to come full circle with the song and re-imagine it for this incredible landmark's sequel.

"Hans is a prodigious composer who effortlessly straddles several musical genres so it was liberating for us all to work with such a talent and see how he wove the sound of the series and Bloom together."