The Wind in the Willows (TV series) The Wind in the Willows (TV series) The Wind in the Willows is a TV series that was originally broadcast between 1984 and 1988, based on characters from Kenneth Grahame's classic story "The Wind in the Willows" and following the 1983 film "The Wind in the Willows". The series took place where the film left off and the original voice cast members; David Jason, Richard Pearson and Michael Hordern returned. However Ian Carmichael who had previously voiced Rat in the film was now cast as the narrator and Rat's voice was replaced by Peter Sallis. It was made by animation
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