Bright Eyes

And there's a six-year-old watching this.

And then there's the kind of mythopoetic moment of when Bright Eyes comes on, which if I bring in now, because I just brought in my own story about my accident, now thinking about the film, how at that point is when Hazel gets shot by the farmer.

And at that point is when the song Bright Eyes comes in because he has this near-death experience.

and gets called to dance and get to know the Black Rabbit of Inlay, the Black Rabbit of Death.

And I was thinking the parallels of that with me, about how I feel like I went into the darkness when I died, and it wasn't scary, and it was just a place I hung out for a while, and now I feel like I know that part.

But is there a particular moment within Watership Down that you find yourself particularly connecting to and perhaps connecting you to death within the story?

Yeah.

So, because when you ask me what story, it's the moment when Hazel dances with death that came to my mind and that's the Bright Eyes Art Garfunkel track that I still can't listen to without crying.

And actually kind of where that ties back to my dad, Simon and Garfunkel thing was that Mike Bat was the guy who wrote the theme tune and then kind of did all the Wombles music.

And he went on to write Bright Eyes from the Watership Down animated film, which Art Garfunkel sung on the soundtrack.

So there was a kind of indirect line from Simon and Garfunkel to the Wombles by Mike Batt.

So that was kind of my kid cassette era.