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
Scottish literature in the nineteenth century Barrie (1860–1937), best known for his creation of Peter Pan, which helped develop the genre of fantasy. Also important in the development of fantasy was the work of George MacDonald (1824–1905) whose produced children's novels, including "The Princess and the Goblin" (1872) and "At the Back of the North Wind" (1872), realistic novels of Scottish life, but also "Phantastes: A Fairie Romance for Men and Women" (1858) and later "Lilith: A Romance" (1895), which would be an important influence on the work of both C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Scottish "national drama" emerged in the early 1800s,