The Wind in the Willows (1983 film) 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 Hermits & Malcolm Rowe. The Stone
The Wind in the Willows Golden Age" and "Dream Days", generally gave negative reviews. The public loved it, however, and within a few years it sold in such numbers that many reprints were required. In 1909, then sitting US President Theodore Roosevelt wrote to Grahame to tell him that he had "read it and reread it, and have come to accept the characters as old friends". In "The Enchanted Places", Christopher Robin Milne wrote of "The Wind in the Willows": Unproduced The BBC has broadcast a number of radio productions of the story. Dramatisations include: Abridged readings include: Other presentation formats: Mapledurham House in Oxfordshire