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Blog postThis weekend, London’s BFI Southbank premiered episodes 1 and 2 of the upcoming BBC1 4-part Watership Down mini-series. Six years in the making, audience members had an early opportunity to return to Richard Adams’ beloved novel, brought to life by an all-star cast of actors and Brown Bag Films’ beautiful and distinctive animations.
During the credits, the audience were treated to the first public listening of Sam Smith’s brand new song, Fire On Fire, written specifically for the show -
Blog postWatership Down returns this Christmas in a new 4-part mini-series, brought to you by the BBC and Netflix. Each 50-minute episode follows one leg of the journey of the determined Hazel (James McAvoy) and insightful Fiver (Nicholas Holt), as they try to find and establish a home at the safe haven of Watership Down.
Richard Adams’ best-selling book will be brought to life once again by an all-star cast also including Gemma Arterton, John Boyega, Olivia Colman, Sir Ben Kingsley, Daniel Ka -
Blog postMost people discover Richard Adams via the warrens of Watership Down. But a new picture book starring a dragon made from old egg cartons could change that for a new generation of readers. The Adventures of Egg Box Dragon is Adams’s first story for pre-schoolers and the last he ever wrote. He died last December, aged 96.
“One nice sunny day, when Dad was 93 and having a good day, I shoved him into the dining room with a pad of paper and said, ‘Go on, write Egg Box Dragon!” says Juliet -
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Blog postOn Thursday night, Egg Box Dragon had another adventure. He travelled to Oxford for the launch of Richard’s new book about his adventures with Emma, his creator, and how his special gift of finding lost objects came to the rescue of a number of very important people.
After an exciting evening at the brilliant Oxford Story Museum with a host of fans of all ages, Dragon spent the night in Jesus College and then made his way to Blackwells bookshop in Oxford, where he can now be seen in f -
Blog postRichard would have been pleased and moved by this thoughtful piece by Matthew Simpson about his work ‘The Plague Dogs’ and his fundamental philosophical and moral opposition to vivisection.
The original article can be found here.
The author Richard Adams, who wrote a series of highly original novels with non-human animals as their leading characters, died on Christmas Eve of 2016. Watership Down was his most successful book, both commercially and as literature, but The Plague -
Blog postThe family of Richard Adams are proud to announce the forthcoming publication of Richard’s delightful story for younger children, as told in the car to Juliet, Rosamond and a school friend, back in the 1960s. The book will be launched at the wonderful Children’s Story Museum on October 5th. Egg Box Dragon is mischievous and a bit of a liability, but he’s brilliant at finding lost objects, just not so good at controlling his fire-breathing…
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Blog postWith springtime comes rebirth and renewal. This year it’s especially poignant. We all miss Richard so much. He especially loved the spring - Watership Down both begins and ends in springtime (‘The primroses were over…’) - and it seems odd to hear the birds and see the burgeoning of flowers and trees without his happy commentary. It lifts us a bit, though, to reflect how happy it would have made him to know how his work, full of the love of springtime, lives on, not least in his home town of W
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Blog postThe following eulogy was delivered at Richard’s funeral on the 13th January by his son-in-law, Dr. Peter Johnson.
Good morning everybody. Thank you for coming today to pay your last respects to Richard.
Without wishing to be irreverent, but knowing that Richard always liked a bit of showmanship and drama, I can easily imagine that he felt quite chuffed to be sandwiched between George Michael and Carrie Fisher when he died at Christmas.
What’s more, if we assume that th -
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Blog postMiranda Johnson, a granddaughter of Richard Adams, has produced two articles exploring Richard’s life and works.
How Watership Down was written - The Economist’s ideas, culture and lifestyle magazine, 1843
Bustling preparations for a car journey take time: the need to check on children, belongings and provisions, to make certain of the route and the vehicle, and to calculate quite when to leave. In the 1960s driving from London to Stratford-upon-Avon took three hours. For two -
Blog postWe would like to say thank you for everyone’s support, and the outpouring of kind words and tributes to Richard over the past few days.
Of all the pieces written about Richard that we have seen, this was the one that most moved us and we’d like to share it with you.
“In Watership Down, he created a book ahead of its time, a multi-layered novel that appealed to adults and children alike. But Adams was no one-hit wonder” - The Guardian
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