Editing Watership Down (section)

===Audiobooks===
In the 1970s, the book was released by [[Argo Records (UK)|Argo Records]] read by [[Roy Dotrice]], with musical background—music by [[George Butterworth]] performed by [[Academy of St Martin in the Fields]] under the direction of [[Neville Marriner]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZwkAngEACAAJ|title=Watership Down: Read by Roy Dotrice. Talking Book|last=Adams|first=Richard|date=1 January 1976|language=en|asin=B01IW6MGAU}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/George-Butterworth-Scenes-From-Watership-Down/release/5694537|title=George Butterworth – Scenes From Watership Down|date=1978 |publisher=discogs|access-date=17 February 2017}}</ref>

[[Alexander Scourby]] narrated an unabridged edition, originally published on LP in the 1970s by the Talking Books program of the American Foundation for the Blind ([[National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled|NLSB]]).<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1017729665 |title=Watership Down |author1=Richard Adams |author2=Alexander Scourby |via=WorldCat |oclc=1017729665 |access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref> The LPs have been destroyed by NLSB and are very rare.

In 1984, ''Watership Down'' was adapted into a four-cassette [[audiobook]] by John Maher in association with the [[Australian Broadcasting Company]]'s Renaissance Players. Produced by John Hannaford and narrated by Kerry Francis, the audiobook was distributed by [[The Mind's Eye (radio company)|The Mind's Eye]].<ref>''Watership Down''. The Mind's Eye. 1984. {{ISBN|0-88142-559-1}}.</ref>

In 1990, a 16-hour, 11-cassette recording read by John MacDonald was published by Books on Tape, Inc. of Santa Ana, CA.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Watership Down|last=Adams|first=Richard |location=Newport Beach, Calif. |publisher=Books on Tape|year=1990|isbn=9780736617000|oclc=21266537}}</ref>

[[Andrew Sachs]] recorded a five and a half-hour abridged version of the story for Puffin Audiobooks.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.bookdepository.com/Watership-Down-Richard-Adams/9780140866926|title=Watership Down read by Andrew Sachs|last=Adams|first=Richard|via=bookdepository.com|publisher=Penguin Books Ltd|language=en|date=27 November 1997|isbn=9780140866926|access-date=17 February 2017}}</ref>

In 2010, [[Audible.com]] released an unabridged digital download of the book, narrated by the multiple award-winning [[Ralph Cosham]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.audible.com/pd/Fiction/Watership-Down-Audiobook/B003NAKQPI|title=Watership Down, narrated by Ralph Cosham|last=Adams|first=Richard|publisher=Blackstone Audio, Inc.|date=21 May 2010|asin=B003NGXOSI}}</ref>

In 2019, Blackstone Audio Inc. released an unabridged version of ''Watership Down'' with a foreword by the author, Richard Adams. [[Peter Capaldi]] narrated the 17-hour, 31-minute book.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.audible.com/pd/Watership-Down-Audiobook/1982562706|title=Watership Down, narrated by Peter Capaldi|last=Adams|first=Richard|publisher=Blackstone Audio, Inc.|date=7 May 2019|access-date=3 October 2019}}</ref>