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
David Lindsay (novelist) and deep revision of "A Voyage to Arcturus". Bloom, however, has conceded that his late-comer imitation is overwhelmed by Lindsay's great original. David Lindsay (novelist) David Lindsay (3 March 1876 – 16 July 1945) was a British author now best remembered for the philosophical science fiction novel "A Voyage to Arcturus" (1920). Lindsay was born into a middle-class Scottish Calvinist family in London, and was brought up partly in Jedburgh, where he had family background. He was educated at Colfe's School, Lewisham, and won a scholarship to university, but for financial reasons went into business, becoming an insurance clerk at