Image caption Sir David has travelled across the globe while making his natural history shows

Sir David Attenborough is to narrate The Hunt, a BBC series from the team behind the corporation's hugely successful Planet Earth programmes.

The Hunt will explore the relationship between predators and their prey, and what strategies they use to either catch or avoid each other.

Each episode, to be shown on BBC One, will be based on a habitat, ranging from open grasslands and dense forests to the Arctic and the open oceans.

It will be broadcast in the autumn.

The music will be composed by Steven Price, who won an Oscar in 2014 for his score to Gravity.

Scientists' views

The series will also feature rarely-seen animal behaviour, such as polar bears using meltwater pools in the ice to stalk seals, Arctic foxes leaping to catch auks mid-flight and killer whales hunting humpback whale calves in tropical waters.

Creatures which are not caught on film very often will also featured, including the endangered South American marine otters.

A seventh episode will take a fresh look at the planet through the eyes of the top predators and the scientists and conservationists who are fighting to protect them.

Sir David, who has also made programmes for Sky and UKTV, was one of the signatories to last week's letter to Prime Minister David Cameron criticising the government over its stance towards the BBC's charter renewal.