Yorkshire Post

Theme singer hails version of classic story

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SINGER SAM Smith has hailed

Watership Down as a “powerful” story as it was announced that he had written an original theme for the BBC’s animated adaptation of the novel.

Fire On Fire, written with Steve Mac, was recorded with the BBC Concert Orchestra at London’s famous Abbey Road Studios in September this year. Smith has pedigree in producing well-received film themes. He previously sang

Writing’s On The Wall, the theme to the James Bond film Spectre.

The Grammy and Golden Globe winner said he was “honoured” to have played a part in what he called a “powerful and timeless” story.

The series will air on BBC in the UK and Netflix globally, with two feature-length episodes premiering this Christmas. He said working with director and executive producer of Biscuit Entertainm­ent Noam Murro had been “thrilling” and hailed Mac as “incredible”.

Watership Down is a co-production between the BBC and Netflix, with 42 and Biscuit Entertainm­ent.

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