Watership Down the audiobook was distributed by The Mind's Eye. In 1990, a 16-hour, 11-cassette recording read by John MacDonald was published by Books on Tape, Inc. of Santa Ana, CA. Andrew Sachs recorded a five and a half hour abridged version of the story for Puffin Audiobooks. In 2010, Audible.com released an unabridged digital download of the book, narrated by the multiple award–winning Ralph Cosham. In an episode of the British comedy show "The Goodies", entitled Animals, nature presenters from the BBC are forced to escape in rabbit suits from the fury of animals now granted equal rights with humans. It
Watership Down (TV series) In The Rain", Cerys Matthews from the group Catatonia performed "Thank You, Stars" which was used in the series as a romance theme for Hazel and Primrose and Paul Carrack from the group Mike + The Mechanics performed "Winter Song", though the song wasn't used, an instrumental piece was in the "Winter on Watership Down" two parter. Mike himself sang for the soundtrack, performing the song "The View From A Hill" which oddly enough was used in the series, but only in the German version and sung by an uncredited singer, and British voice actor Gary Martin provided the narration