What’s a snowman’s favorite sandwich? Ice ham and cheese! 51. What does Frosty’s mom put on her face at night? Cold cream. 52 ...

“Briggs was quite an eccentric person,” Blake recalls of the author and illustrator, who died last year, “and he told me he didn’t want a song for the film – he didn’t want a tune.

Here he finds the solitude he needs to write musical scores like The Snowman, which includes Walking ... Blake realised he already had an unused song idea from years back that would fit.

A new version of The Snowman is to be screened on Channel 4 ... the same original illustrators and a new song. The changing of instantly recognisable theme ‘Walking in the Air’ is the most ...