

When the Wind Blows is a hybrid of traditional and stop-motion animation.

A subsequent graphic novel by Briggs, Ethel and Ernest (1998), makes it clear that Briggs based the protagonist couple in When the Wind Blows on his own parents.

It was distributed by Recorded Releasing in the UK, and by Kings Road Entertainment in the United States. The film was Briggs' second collaboration with TVC, after their efforts with a special based on another work of his, The Snowman, in 1982. The film recounts a rural English couple's attempt to survive a nearby nuclear attack and maintain a sense of normality in the subsequent fallout and nuclear winter. The film stars the voices of John Mills and Peggy Ashcroft as the two main characters and was scored by Roger Waters. When the Wind Blows is a 1986 British animated disaster film directed by Jimmy Murakami based on Raymond Briggs' comic book or graphic novel of the same name.
