The Wind in the Willows

But it isn't in the very fun Disney version because it's off the stem of the main narrative.

The Wind in the Willows is two books, really.

One about Toad and his reckless obsessions and the other about something dreamy and elusive.

So I want to say that due to family requirements, as you are listening, I find myself lost in the old Confederacy for a bit.

On this week's episode, we have a full slate with five homemakers sharing their holiday memories, tips, and recipes, as well as another Christmas literature scene.

This time we will be visiting Molly's house from The Wind in the Willows.

So whether you're decking the halls or addressing your Christmas cards, I hope you enjoy these holiday stories of home.

I'm back with my friend, Leslie Locato, and we're going to talk about Christmas.

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From the Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham.

What a capital little house this is, the rat called out cheerily.

He had written The Red House Mystery, a classic of the Golden Age detective genre, which if you listen to our Agatha Christie episode, you'll know is a big deal.

He later adapted The Wind in the Willows for the stage as Toad of Toad Hall.

He saw himself as a serious man of letters.

and then in 1924, he published a little book of children's verse, When We Were Very Young, illustrated by Punch colleague E.H. Shepard.

I had no idea what was going on for at least half of whatever the fuck that was.

So I had, as a kid, a copy of The Wind in the Willows book.

So I grew up with that.

And so I'm like, of course I'm going to watch Mr. Toad.

Well done, Alison.

The owners of the Wind in the Willows estate are to hand it over to the locals.

Kenneth Graham's Edwardian creation, Toad, was thought to be based on his friend Sir Charles Rose, the new money owner of the Hardwick House in Oxfordshire, fictional Toad Hall.

His fortune came from merchant banking in the colonies and his descendants now say it's time to give back.

That smell of baking bread stops me in my tracks.

It's a bit like Mr Toad in that famous book, The Wind in the Willows.

Toad is happily touring the countryside in his canary yellow caravan when a motor car roars past and tips the caravan into a ditch.

Ratty is furious.

He went to Iowa State University, studied rural sociology, and spent his life asking why people adopt some innovations and resist others.

In 1962, he published Diffusion of Innovation.

It became one of the most cited books in all of social science.

It's still widely read today.

I lo- I love the horn.

I love it reminds me of Wind in the Willows and Toad, and so-

Oh, it is-

Yeah, yeah.

He had an alcoholic father who was farmed out to a succession of aunts.

And he invents in The River Bank and Wind in the Willows this completely hermetic kind of golden world in which notably, and slightly sadly, there are, you know, no women whatsoever.

Um, and for some authors, it's not that they're trying to recover their own childhood or, or make up for a childhood they didn't enjoy, but they're trying to get back to a childhood that they couldn't ever quite get over the pain of having to leave.

That was beautifully put, Sam, and really, really interesting.

What happens when those chains are cast off? What happens when we cast off those chains of self-imposed bondage to the devil's form? We see the thing for what it is.

This is from Kenneth Graham's wonderful children's book, The Wind in the Willows, published in 1908, specifically chapter 7, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

In it, the main characters Mole and Rat

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