What You Might Not Know About Raymond Briggs' Classic

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What You Might Not Know About Raymond Briggs' Classic

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Originally ‘Walking In The Air’ is not sung by Aled Jone

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Written by Howard Blake and sung by young Peter Auty

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It was nominated for an Oscar - Nominated for Best Animated Short at the 1983 Oscars.

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For the 20th anniversary broadcast in 2002, Channel 4 commissioned a brand new intro: an animated intro featuring Raymond Briggs' own Father Christmas.

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In Briggs' original book, the young boy in the story is not given a name - the story is entirely wordless after all.

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Snowman's shared universe as Marvel but 30 years ago by combining his two Father Christmas books, Father Christmas and Father Christmas Goes On Holiday.

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There’s a Snowman video game released on the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 in 1984.

It’s all about death - Acc. to Briggs’ - “I create what seems natural and inevitable”

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In Briggs' original book, the young boy in the story is not given a name - the story is entirely wordless after all.

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