The Wind in the Willows (2006 film) The Wind in the Willows (2006 film) The Wind in the Willows is a 2006 live-action television adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic novel "The Wind in the Willows". It was a joint production of the BBC and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and starred Matt Lucas (Mr. Toad), Bob Hoskins (Badger), Mark Gatiss (Ratty), and Lee Ingleby (Mole), with a cameo appearance from Michael Murphy as the Judge. Rachel Talalay directed. It debuted in Canada on CBC Television on 18 December 2006 in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 1 January 2007, in the U.S. on PBS's "Masterpiece Theatre" on 8
The Wind in the Willows (musical) novel "The Wind in the Willows" was being worked on by Julian Fellowes with music and lyrics to be penned by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. The trio first worked together on the musical "Mary Poppins". In November 2013, a Crowdfunding exercise was launched to raise ten percent of the shows £6.5m budget, with a view to opening the show in London in 2015. Ultimately more than 10% was raised by that means, totalling one million pounds. The trio are also reunited with director Rachel Kavanaugh who directed Half a Sixpence as well as directing Stiles and Drewe's Peter Pan