About this episode

Eleanor & Alasdair discuss the themes and reputation of Richard Adams's 'Watership Down'.

Eleanor & Alasdair take you down to Watership City, where the grass is green and the girls are... hang on, where are all the girls? We read Watership Down, Richard Adams's 1972 epic. It's Brer Rabbit meets Mad Max, but does the novel live up to the movie's grisly reputation? Is it really a kids' book? And why do we keep singing the X-Men theme? Buy us a coffee: ko-fi.com/readthat_podcast

People in this episode

Hosts: Eleanor Morton, Alasdair Beckett-King

Topics covered

• Watership Down
• children's literature
• adaptations
• animal characters
• storytelling

Keywords

• Watership Down
• Richard Adams
• children's book
• X-Men theme
• animal stories
• literary analysis

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Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Watership Down, X-Men

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