Uncle Ben tells stories

By Ben Ackland

For Jude, Cassius and Liberty, and anyone who loves a good story.... more

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May 09, 2024 'Watership Down' Chapter 27: "You Can't Imagine it Unless You've Been There"
Holly tells the others what happened on the ill-fated mission to bring does from the big warren...

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10min
May 08, 2024 'Watership Down', Chapter 26: Fiver Beyond
Fiver dreams of Hazel, and launches a rescue mission...

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10min
May 06, 2024 'Watership Down', Chapter 25: The Raid
Hazel leads a dangerous mission back to Nuthanger Farm to free the hutch rabbits...

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37min
May 05, 2024 'Watership Down' by Richard Adams, Chapter One
Part One, Chapter 1: The Noticeboard
Adams includes footnotes at the end of each chapter, explaining key terms in the world of the rabbits.
Fiver's name:
1. Rabbits can count up to four. Any number above four is hrair—“a lot,” or “a thousand.” Thus they say U Hrair—“The Thousand”—to mean, collectively, all the enemies (or elil, as they call them) of rabbits—fox, stoat, weasel, cat, owl, man, etc. There were probably more than five rabbits in the litter when Fiver was born, but his name, Hrairoo, means “Little Thousand”—i.e., the little one of a lot or, as they say of pigs, “the runt.”
The 'Owsla'
2. Nearly all warrens have an Owsla, or group of strong or clever rabbits—second-year or older—surrounding the Chief Rabbit and his doe and exercising authority. Owslas vary. In one warren, the Owsla may be the band of a warlord: in another, it may consist largely of clever patrollers or garden-raiders. Sometimes a good storyteller may find a place; or a seer, or intuitive rabbit. In the Sandleford warren at this time, the Owsla was rather military in character (though, as will be seen later, not so military as some).
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11min
May 05, 2024 'Watership Down', Chapter 24: Nuthanger Farm
Whilst Holly and Silver look for the big warren, Hazel and Fiver set off on an adventure of their own...

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19min
May 03, 2024 'Watership Down', Chapter 23: Kehaar
Bigwig makes an unusual friend...

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39min
June 11, 2023 'Watership Down', Chapter 22: The Story of the Trial of El-ahrairah
Bluebell tells the story of the time El-ahrairah was put on trial for the theft of Prince Rainbow's carrots...

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33min
June 11, 2023 'Watership Down', Chapter 21: "For El-ahrairah to Cry"
Holly tells the terrible story of what happened at the Sandleford warren after Hazel and the others had left...

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21min
June 08, 2023 'Watership Down', Chapter 20: A Honeycomb and a Mouse
Hazel makes a new friend, and the rabbits prepare to hear Holly's story...

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21min
June 08, 2023 'Watership Down', Chapter 19: Fear in the Dark
A strange and terrible voice causes panic...
1. Vagabond - Bigwig's word is 'hlessil', which I have rendered in various places in the story as wanderers, scratchers, vagabonds. A 'hlessi' is a rabbit living in the open, without a hole. Solitary bucks and unmated rabbits who are wandering do this for quite long periods especially in summer. Bucks do not usualy dig much in any case, although they will scratch shallow shelters or make use of existing holes where these are available. Real digging is done by the most part by does preparing for litters.
2. 'Zorn' means 'finished' or 'destroyed', in the sense of some terrible catastrophe.
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21min

FAQs about Uncle Ben tells stories:

How many episodes does Uncle Ben tells stories have?

The podcast currently has 70 episodes available.