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From BBC Radio 4 - Drama:
Richard Adams' award-winning novel from 1972. Fearful that their home in Sandleford Warren is to be destroyed, a band of rabbits begins an epic and perilous journey to Watership Down.
Produced by Gemma Jenkins
Directed by Marc Beeby
Watership Down was Richard Adams' first novel and began life as improvised stories told to his two young daughters. Once published it became hugely successful, and won its author the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal.
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Richard Adams' award-winning novel from 1972. Fearful that their home in Sandleford Warren is to be destroyed, a band of rabbits begins an epic and perilous journey to Watership Down.
Produced by Gemma Jenkins
Directed by Marc Beeby
Watership Down was Richard Adams' first novel and began life as improvised stories told to his two young daughters. Once published it became hugely successful, and won its author the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal.
http: ...more
When Richard Adams was shopping Watership Down around to publishers, he got a ton of rejections. It was thought younger kids wouldn't like it because it got too sad, and older kids wouldn't because it was about bunnies.
The book eventually found a sizable audience. But I admit, the bunny angle is what kept me from reading it when I was a kid. My loss.
The rabbits in this story must find a new home. One of them has been having visions of their current one being torn apart by humans. Along the way t ...more
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