The Wind in the Willows (1995 film) The Wind in the Willows (1995 film) The Wind in the Willows is a 1995 British animation film directed by Dave Unwin and written by Ted Walker, based on the novel "The Wind in the Willows", a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame. It was produced by the now defunct TVC (Television Cartoons) in London. The films include live action starting and ending segments with Vanessa Redgrave as the grandmother (who narrates), Alan Bennett, Michael Gambon, Rik Mayall, Michael Palin, Tom Stourton and Barry Foster, which changes into an animated setting as soon as the grandmother opens the book.
The Wind in the Willows the animal characters in his book do – as the book says, "simply messing about in boats" – and expanding the bedtime stories he had earlier told his son Alastair into a manuscript for the book. The novel was in its 31st printing when playwright A. A. Milne adapted part of it for the stage as "Toad of Toad Hall" in 1929. 1946 saw the first of several film adaptions. In 2003, "The Wind in the Willows" was listed at number 16 in the BBC's survey The Big Read. More than a century after its original publication, it was adapted