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What A Cartoon! - The Wind in the Willows "The Piper At The Gates of Dawn" (Patreon)

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2020-11-16 05:00:01
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2026-06
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This week we're doing our most British podcast ever, as requested by premium Patreon subscriber, Alex! We're covering the ultimate adaptation of The Wind in the Willows, as this 1984 stop-motion series did so well by Kenneth Grahame's text, with many cute animals hanging out and having adventures. We cover Cosgrove-Hall's history with the series, as well as the eerie episode "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" on this week's podcast!

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Boyd Adkins IV

Never have I been happier to be listening to this episode while working from home as hearing the naked rabbits referred to as "sex freaks" caused a laughing fit that almost woke my family up at 4am

Patrick McClafferty

David Jason has oddly come up in my house a lot lately. Parents discovered a sitcom he has been on in recent years, Still Open All Hours, as well as that Touch of Frost show that you mentioned. Didn't know until then that he was Duckula (loved that show as a kid).

marathedemon

The appearance of the god Pan was a sort of meme at the time of Wind in the Willows writing and his inclusion in the book puts it into a group with other works of the post-romantic pre-weird fiction bubble. Basically, Pan was considered a symbol of naturalism and a reverence for nature, and the sort of spooky unexplained “dark side” of the natural world, and started getting used by a bunch of overeducated writers who missed the nature of their youth (this is where the name Peter Pan comes from). Eventually the more positive aspects got dropped and Weird Fiction with it’s love of unexplained monstrosities and hate of radical new ideas like multiculturalism started gaining steam. The turn of the (previous) century is a great time for genre fiction and if the more mystical parts of the wind in the willows piques your interest I suggest going to project gutenberg, there’s a lot of fun, cozy fiction from that era that’s completely free because anyone who could possibly fight for the rights is dead (wind in the willows is there too).

Alistair Shand aka Bongo

More “stupid” British pronunciation Berkshire is Barkshire . At lest you said Alistair correct! Can anybody tell how Belvoir is pronounced??

Thad Komorowski

Yeah, unless you were completely braindead, Eureka's Castle was the bane of every Nickelodeon-watching child's existence.

Patrick Stratford

Great to hear you both tackling some UK shows for the first time and you've definitely done your homework with the background of the series. Though I will offer a couple of corrections. Thames Television wasn't a subsidiary of ITV (or at least in the way most people think) It's a long and complicated story, which is covered very well in the YouTube series ITV In The Face from Applemask, by ITV (Independent Television) was created as the first commercial broadcaster in Europe and each region in the UK has an idependent company broadcasting some shows of their own making, but mainly networked shows from other regions. Thames served as the regional broadcaster for London from 1968 until 1992 until they lost the franchise to another company, with basically merged with one of the other bigger companies to become ITV as it is now, which is still main broadcaster in the UK, but the lacks the thought and originality of the old days. Also, Peter Sallis is actually using his own RP (Received Pronunciation) accent for Ratty, whereas he uses a Northern accent for Wallace and Gromit and Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine. Though Ian Carmichael was great in the original film, I tend to think of Sallis' voice as Ratty first. He gives a great performance in the other episode adapted from the book, Wayfarer's All, which also has an other worldliness to it and might be my favourite of the entire series. Keep up the good work and hope to hear some more UK choices again soon! ;)

crystalhearts

A beautiful, haunting piece of stop motion, marred only by the truly bizarre European tradition of telling children's stories that contain no women or girls whatsoever. See also: Tintin.

Pablo5

You missed my favourite piece of trivia about this, John Squire of The Stone Roses worked on it as a model maker.

Chris Warren

I hope there's some quality Pink Floyd discussion in here. :)

KaiserBeamz

Something about dreary stop-motion British animation has always appealed to me. Maybe it's overall lo-fi nature of them. In any case, I would take them over the cheap uncanny-valley CGI cartoons with saturated colors that they all morphed into.

Matt Deakin

Thanks for this episode. As one of those UK Gen X ers this took me back to childhood days, particularly mention of Chorlton and the Wheelies. (Happiness Dragon saves land of wheeled creatures from a Welsh witch who lives in a kettle). There is evidence that Grahame's inspiration came from his family holidays in Cornwall and particularly a boat trip from Fowey (pronounced Foy) to Lerryn (a regular holiday destination for my family too) The river Fowey flows down to the sea (Fowey supposedly the little Sea Town from the novel). The walks through Ethy Woods are almost straight onto the page. By the way, if you want trippy you should try Dougal and the Blue Cat, a movie based on a French stop motion series The Magic Roundabout. Notable in the UK because the English narrator was Eric Thompson (Emma's dad) who didn't bother with the French scripts and made up his own character traits and stories from what he saw in the animation. A cult classic.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

I had about no context for this show going into it, and it's complete and utter Britishness (in a stiff upper lip sense) created enough of a melancholy sense to it that it actually made me kind of sad while watching it. I'm not sure what specifically about it triggered that in me, but it just kinda gave me the sense I had as a kid watching random television on a sick day rather than doing something fun to pass the time, since I would desperately not want to go back to school the next day, and would try to make the hours pass as slow as I could (I am aware of how fucking bizarre that sounds).

Chance Gerk

Living in rural canada my grand parents only had two channels. It must have played on the wonderful world of disney on cbc because hearing the opening dah da dah da dunn of the Thames logo gave me chills. The theme song then, brought the textured image of their cheap wool carpet vividly back to me. I cant remember anything else about the show other than how much i loved the creepy puppets.