New TV Version Of ‘The Wind In The Willows’!
What are you and your family doing Monday night at 8:00pm with the TV tuned to CBC?
It’s a live-action UK/Canada co-production (filmed in Romania) of the great classic, fairly faithful to the tale as far as I can tell from the casting, ( and the articles I’ve just seen), but with the characters as almost completely humanoid, without fancy prosthetics. Matt Lucas, of the excellent English sketch comedy series ‘Little Britain‘ (which is narrated by Tom Baker) stars as Toad, with Bob Hoskins as Badger, and our own Mary Walsh as the Washerwoman.
Here’s the BBC press pack for the production.
Why this post, you may be asking yourself?
I’m a big fan of the book, and I even wrote two short stories a few years ago inspired by my first re-reading of the book in decades.
I saw the cover picture on this week’s Toronto Star TV magazine, beamed in delight and went straight to the article.