The Wind in the Willows (1983 film) one in Leap Castle in Ireland. The Wind in the Willows (1983 film) The Wind in the Willows is a 1983 British stop motion animated film produced by Cosgrove Hall Films for Thames Television and aired on the ITV network. The film is based on Kenneth Grahame's classic story "The Wind in the Willows". It won a BAFTA award and an international Emmy award. Subsequently, the studio made a 52 episode series, "The Wind in the Willows" based on characters from the Wind in the Willows between 1984 and 1990. Music & songs composed by Keith Hopwood, late of Herman's
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