Episode 2: Introduction and Part One: The Journey. Chapter One: The Notice Board First I talk about my battered old copy of Watership Down from 1978. Childish 11 year old's signature inside the front cover. Cost 90p. Must have got it after seeing the film. No introduction in my copy so I relistened to the audiobook reading of it. The plausibility of the entire book coming from car journeys. Amazing if true. What a memory! Adam's goes through the origins of characters. Many derived from wartime experiences. After the car stories he was urged to write it down by his daughters and went through each section with them. His love of the countryside where the book is set is obvious. The origins of lapine is explained. Needing words for things only rabbits would say. Arabic influence and onomatopoeia. Draft was rejected 7 times. Too babyish but ...