The Wind in The Willows Audiobook - Side 1 - [PickWick Tell-A-Tale]

[@melanieleathead4459]

Omg!!! This is the EXACT tape I had as a child!!!! Gosh brings back soooo many memories. Thanks for uploading ❤

[@246trixie]

Ohhh thankyou! I was very ill as a child and couldnt sleep. I had constant undiagnosed kidney infections and later had to have it removed. Noone believed me when i said i was ill. I couldnt sleep and every night i would relax listening to this- i just loved the music and narration. When my parents divorced and we moved the tape was lost. I was totally devastated. Thank you so much for uploading- truly special to me- thank you xxx

[@Onnired]

I had this and listened to it until it became warped and the player chewed it up! Also had the Sorcerer's Apprentice. Gave me an appreciation for classical music - so an added bonus. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@fx53boy]

Thank you for posting this. You've done a great job with the audio quality and it gives me goosebumps to hear again after 30 years. I used to listen to this to fall asleep as a kid.

[@clairebunney]

Awww yes me too!! I've been trying to find this version for years after such wonderful memories from 30 years ago too! Beautiful memories 😊

[@waynemoore1708]

I would like to fall asleep with you!

[@246trixie]

Me too x

[@mckavitt13]

Never have heard it before, but love it! Is it Emilia Fox perchance?

[@arafsadventures]

Same as me my friend

[@sarahalexandra3892]

This is the sound of my childhood ❤️

[@Whales320]

THank you, ive been looking for this for over 5 years!

[@tomlewis8835]

These tales were magical! Thanks for posting!

[@Thelonious456]

This tape also began a lifelong love of Beethoven for me.

[@mickeencrua]

Me too.

[@clairebunney]

Aw me too!!! I can't believe I've finally found it again after do many years!!😍

[@246trixie]

NJ W yes thats why my fave composer is beethoven

[@sarahalexandra3892]

Me too!!!!

[@hibernius78]

Beautiful. I’m so delighted to find it. I play it to my daughter at bedtime - it’s her absolute favourite, like it was when I was her age.

[@PeterCamberwick]

Wow! Haven't heard this version for about 25 years. Thanks a lot for uploading it.

[@loreng3409]

Thank you. I absolutely love this. Will listen many times.

[@Antpeople1]

I had this cassette tape and book in the late 80's. A lot of my toys and books were from the 70's passed down to me but I see this tape says 1983 so maybe my Late Mother got for me when I was a baby. If I had known it was going for £80 on Ebay! I could do with shoes and I can't afford extra large shoes and since the day I was born my Mother said I had large feet which would be a problem! We had SO many retro toys that would be very collectable and worth money but not this! I just loved lying on the sofa with my eyes closed, listening to the river on my Walkman and feeling as if the water was all around me........This was the first time I had heard Beethoven and I found it gelled welled with the action in the story; just as when I heard it played to Disney's Fantasia.

[@Antpeople1]

I also had Noddy and LadyBird Puss 'n' Boots and when I hear that particular classical piece that is what I think of....."When you hear this noise.....it means turn the page......."

[@arafsadventures]

Thanks for the upload, brings back childhood memories listening to this audio ❤️

[@rymeintrinseca]

Thank you so much. I had this tape as a child (I still have two copies, but the sound is very distorted on them) and the book (I have many copies of now). This was played on many a car journey and I know the first chapter off by heart, I’ve heard it so much. So lovely to be able to listen again. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[@AndyMcGeever]

I still have this cassette, and the Gullivers travels one. In fact finding the gullivers travel one just now made me look this up. must be 35 years ago?

[@mickeencrua]

Andy, Do you know if the audio cassette is still available to buy? I still have the book after nearly 35 years. My first grand-child is due shortly. I would dearly love to make her/him a present of the book and cassette.

[@soprano862]

Thankyou Thankyou for these, they were my favourite as a child and now I can play it for my little girl 🥰🥰🥰

[@chrisherbert9924]

A blast from the past this story tape, had a few of these tapes when I was younger.

[@Thelonious456]

Thank you so much for posting this! Blast from the past.

[@madbcbxx3921]

Yay thx so much

[@tonyhancock3912]

Thankyou!

[@mickeencrua]

I still have the book after 35 years. Does anybody know if the audio cassette is still available? Please don't suggest eBay. Somebody is trying to sell one for £90. Shame on you!

[@mickeencrua]

@silva geko Yes.

[@MichaelOglesby]

The Wind in the Willows audio cassette is long out of print; it was produced in the 1980's by Pickwick International for Ladybird. The Pickwick audio cassette tapes for the Ladybird Classics series are very rare and it seems eBay is the only source. I have been collecting them for over 10 years; some I got for a few pounds, some for a lot lot more. Unfortunately, Wind in the Willows is a very rare one, I think I paid £40 for my copy. I have seen the eBay auction you mentioned, stupid price (£80), but I have to admit, it is about the third copy I've ever seen on eBay. The thing, you can guarantee the quality of the recording.

[@mickeencrua]

@silva geko Many thanks for the advice. I've managed to burn both parts to a disc so I'm sorted.

[@Tularis]

Sorry, I never saw these comments. I can upload the RAW audio if you like. I managed to get this cassette from ebay for arround £15.00 I think. I'll be putting them back on ebay now that I have captured the audio.

[@traciemarsh1611]

this is only side 1

[@Tularis]

Yes it is