The Watership Down Podcast

The Watership Down Podcast is intended for listeners who are familiar with the plot. There will be spoilers. This episode is scripted, narrated, recorded and edited by Newell Fisher. Contributions to upcoming episode: thewatershipdownpodcast@outlook.com NEW RSS.COM FEED: https://media.rss.com/thewatershipdownpodcast/feed.xml OTHER LINKS: With thanks to Andrew Stevens: 'Understanding Comics: The Hi...

The Watership Down Podcast is intended for listeners who are familiar with the plot. There will be spoilers. This episode is scripted by Newell Fisher and Joe Sutphin and is narrated, recorded and edited by Newell Fisher. Contributions to upcoming episode: thewatershipdownpodcast@outlook.com PUT FIVER ON THE FIVER PETITION: https://www.change.org/Put_Fiver_on_the_Fiver UK BANKNOTE CONSULTATION: ht...

The Watership Down Podcast is intended for listeners who are familiar with the plot. There will be spoilers. This episode is scripted, narrated, recorded and edited by Newell Fisher. Contributions to upcoming episode: thewatershipdownpodcast@outlook.com PUT FIVER ON THE FIVER PETITION: https://www.change.org/Put_Fiver_on_the_Fiver UK BANKNOTE CONSULTATION: https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/blog/wildl...

The Watership Down Podcast is intended for listeners who are familiar with the plot. There will be spoilers. This episode is scripted, narrated, recorded and edited by Newell Fisher. Contributions to upcoming episode: thewatershipdownpodcast@outlook.com PUT FIVER ON THE FIVER PETITION: https://www.change.org/Put_Fiver_on_the_Fiver NEW RSS.COM FEED: https://media.rss.com/thewatershipdownpodcast/fee...

The Watership Down Podcast is intended for listeners who are familiar with the plot. There will be spoilers. This episode is scripted, narrated, recorded and edited by Newell Fisher. PUT FIVER ON THE FIVER PETITION: https://www.change.org/Put_Fiver_on_the_Fiver NEW RSS.COM FEED: https://media.rss.com/thewatershipdownpodcast/feed.xml OTHER LINKS: With thanks to Andrew Stevens: 'Understanding Comics...

The Watership Down Podcast is intended for listeners who are familiar with the plot. There will be spoilers. This episode is scripted, narrated, recorded and edited by Newell Fisher. PUT FIVER ON THE FIVER PETITION: https://www.change.org/Put_Fiver_on_the_Fiver NEW RSS.COM FEED: https://media.rss.com/thewatershipdownpodcast/feed.xml OTHER LINKS: With thanks to Andrew Stevens: 'Understanding Comics...

The Watership Down Podcast is intended for listeners who are familiar with the plot. There will be spoilers. This episode is scripted, narrated, recorded and edited by Newell Fisher. PUT FIVER ON THE FIVER PETITION: https://www.change.org/Put_Fiver_on_the_Fiver NEW RSS.COM FEED: https://media.rss.com/thewatershipdownpodcast/feed.xml OTHER LINKS: With thanks to Andrew Stevens: 'Understanding Comics...

The Watership Down Podcast is intended for listeners who are familiar with the plot. There will be spoilers. This episode is scripted, narrated, recorded and edited by Newell Fisher. NEW RSS.COM FEED: https://media.rss.com/thewatershipdownpodcast/feed.xml PUT FIVER ON THE FIVER PETITION: https://www.change.org/Put_Fiver_on_the_Fiver OTHER LINKS: With thanks to Andrew Stevens: 'Understanding Comics...

RE-UPLOAD This episode is scripted by Newell Fisher and Giacomo Luca. It is recorded, edited and narrated by Newell Fisher. Watership Down graphic novel: Penguin: https://www.penguin.co...​ Amazon: https://www.amazon.co....​ Rabbit Welfare Association and Fund website: https://rabbitwelfare....​ I am still showcasing WD fan art, by posting any that is submitted as the podcast title image on YouTub...

RE-UPLOAD This episode is scripted recorded, edited and narrated by Newell Fisher. Rabbit Welfare Association and Fund website: https://rabbitwelfare....​ I am still showcasing WD fan art, by posting any that is submitted as the podcast title image on YouTube and posting the art on the podcast Instagram feed with no podcast title getting in the way. All, of course, with full credit given. I am not...

RE-UPLOAD This episode is scripted by Newell Fisher, Leea Mäkelä and Sean Hagins and is narrated, recorded and edited by Newell Fisher. Just Giving Rabbit Welfare Fund Appeal: https://www.justgiving.com/page/thewatershipdownpodcast?utm_source=copyLink&utm_medium=one_page&utm_content=page%2Fthewatershipdownpodcast&utm_campaign=pfp-share&utm_term=3d23a01526584a4a9c5c76b9f620ffa4

RE-UPLOAD This episode is scripted by Newell Fisher and Leea Mäkelä and is narrated, recorded and edited by Newell Fisher.

RE-UPLOAD This episode is scripted, narrated and edited by Newell Fisher, with script assistance by John Ruths.

RE-UPLOAD This episode is scripted by John Ruths and Newell Fisher. It includes adapted text by John. My sincere thanks John, for your extensive help this week after last week's expedition to WD.

RE-UPLOAD This episode is scripted by Newell Fisher, John Ruths and Leea Mäkelä and is narrated, recorded and edited by Newell Fisher. It includes adapted text by John. "Watership Down. Perspectives On and Beyond Animated Violence" edited by Doctor Catherine Lester of the University of Birmingham https://www.bloomsbury...​

RE-UPLOAD This episode is scripted by John Ruths, Newell Fisher and Leea Mäkelä and is narrated and edited by Newell Fisher. It includes adapted text by John.

RE-UPLOAD 50: Chapter 48. Dea ex Machina This episode is scripted by John Ruths and Newell Fisher. This is the only Chapter in WD written from a human perspective. The phrase "Deus ex Machina" means "the god in the machine" In a story, it signifies a highly unlikely event that resolves an issue, saves someone and provides a happy conclusion. However...this chapter is called DEA ex Machina, meaning...

RE-UPLOAD 46: Chapter 44. A Message from El-ahrairah Scripted by John Ruths and Newell Fisher and is narrated, recorded and edited by Newell Fisher. The pre-chapter quote is from a fairly well-known book about crusader castles.  So, not 'normal' European castles but those built or occupied mostly in the Middle East.  The quote clearly lines up with what's going on at Watership Down.  As our heroes...

RE-UPLOAD 37: Chapter 37. The Thunder Builds Up Scripted by John Ruths and Newell Fisher This is the second of the thunder chapters and has a lot of back and forth setting changes, which keep the reader well informed and stimulate the building tension. The pre-chapter quote is from Uncle Remus.  It is spoken in Joel Chandler Harris's portrayal of African-American Vernacular English. The proverb, i...

RE-UPLOAD 32: Chapter 32. Across the Iron Road The opening quote is another one in French. John Ruths has helped me out here. He says the translation is: "Spirit of rivalry and misunderstanding which more than once preserved the English army from defeat." The person quoted is General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, a French officer in the revolution and Napoleonic Wars. The backhanded compliment towards th...

RE-UPLOAD 31: Chapter 31. The Story of El-ahrairah and the Black Rabbit of Inlé The opening quotation, from the poem 'Prospice' by Robert Browning, is on the theme of almost looking forward to death as a way of facing it. The story opens with the fairly predictable premise of King Darzin learning of how he was fooled into giving away his lettuces by El-ahrairah and Rabscuttle. There is an escalati...

RE-UPLOAD Burrowkeeping From now on I will very strictly deal with one chapter per episode, especially during the events of Part Three. Introduction to Part Three Parts 1 and 3 of WD are basically not set on the Down at all. The only part of Part 3 set on WD comes right at the start of its first chapter, with the departure of the Great Raid on Efrafa. The Great Raid is, arguably, an antagonistic a...

RE-UPLOAD Chapter 26. Fiver Beyond Fiver slips into what might be called just a dream in which he follows the ghostly rabbit he saw disappear on WD into the landscape below. You can clearly see how this description inspired the sequence in the 1978 film. The similarity with that scene ends with the appearance of the disturbing human who gives Fiver all the clues he needs about where to find Hazel....

RE-UPLOAD 23: Chapter 25. The Raid 23.1 Burrowkeeping Returning to the Lost Paragraph, I have now found two places in the book where Bigwig calls Hazel 'Hazel-rah' before the ending, where, in an edition with the Lost Paragraph, he does not. In the puffin edition, these occur on pages 225, at Nuthanger Farm, and 374, on the River Test. Thank you to Amber Rizzi for helping me find that second examp...

RE-UPLOAD 22: Chapter 24. Nuthanger Farm 0:40​ 22.2 Nuthanger Farm 2:30​ 22.3 Chapter 24. Nuthanger Farm 7:45​ 22.4 Next Episode Thank you to John Ruths for his notes on this chapter, which were useful as always. Next time, the rabbits of WD raid Nuthanger Farm, with horrific consequences. And the expedition returns empty handed.