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Watership Down (abridged) read by Roy Dotrice
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Hazel, Bigwig, Fiver and a band of selected rabbits leave their threatened warren and set out on an epic and dangerous journey in this classic animal story.
Playing time: 2 hours 57 minutes
Richard Adams’s wonderful book is told by an audio-book reader of sublime skill. Roy Dotrice portrays each and every rabbit with a voice that suits perfectly and enhances, rather than diminishes, the enjoyment already attained from the written word.
Roy Dotrice is a distinguished English actor who won many awards for his one-man show Brief Lives and enjoyed recent success as Charles Dickens in the TV series Dickens of London.
Richard Adams worked as a civil servant before his remarkable ability to convey the spirit of the animal world in bestsellers such as Watership Down, Shardik and the The Plague Dogs made him a household name.
Posted: January 1st, 2009
Author: Lee
Categories: Audio-books