First of six programmes
Narrated by David Attenborough

With gentle eyes, alert ears and white-flashed tail, a small furry body hops disarmingly into our affections. But a fleeting glimpse of a startled animal bolting for home is as close as most of us get to an understanding of rabbit ways: until, like Alice, you tumble down the burrow!

Underground, in sand dune, hedgerow or on cliff-top, the secrets of rabbit society at peace and war are revealed. In a world packed with danger and constant threat from enemies, only an acute sensitivity to all they hear, smell and see enables bucks, does and kittens to flourish in one of nature's great success stories.
BBC Bristol
(Subtitles on Ceefax page 170)
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