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Contribute your stories to the third edition of “The Making of Swallows and Amazons (1974)”

No sooner than we have published the second edition of ‘The Making of Swallows and Amazons (1974)’ in May 2017 but a number of facts and stories washed up on the incoming tide. I didn’t know that Ransome was aged twelve … Continue reading →

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A Short Swallows and Amazons Interview With Sophie Neville

You can now listen to the short interview that Sophie Neville gave to BBC Radio Cumbria ahead of the Swallows and Amazons events held in the Lake District over this Spring Bank Holiday weekend…

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A Week of Swallows and Amazons Celebrations in the Lakes

During this coming week “Swallows and Amazons” will be celebrated over several days with a series of events held in the Lake District. Sophie Neville, president of The Arthur Ransome Society, will be at…

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Out of the “Swallows and Amazons” archives: a 1974 script for a BBC Radio Bristol show about the original film

When the 1974 film of ‘Swallows and Amazons’ first came out in cinemas it stirred up quite a bit of interest in the media. This script for a programme made for BBC Radio Bristol has recently been discovered in a …

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Swallows and Amazons actress Sophie Neville explores Arthur Ransome’s Lakeland

Sophie Neville, President of The Arthur Ransome Society, explores Arthur Ransome’s Lake District… ‘Where can we find the places described in “Swallows and Amazons”?’ As Arthur…

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Video: Watch the Country Tracks 2003 TV feature about Swallows and Amazons

Watch a clip from “Country Tracks” profiling ‘Swallows and Amazons’ – featuring Claude Watham, Lucy Batty, Suzanna Hamilton and Sophie Neville, with Sophie’s father’s original behind-the-scenes footage from 1973.

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Video: Behind The Scenes of Swallows and Amazons (1974) – The Peak of Darien at… Runnymede

Watch a behind-the-scenes video below, shot in 1973 during the filming of “Swallows and Amazons (1974)”. The scene when John, Susan, Titty and Roger ran up to the Peak of Darien was eventually shot on location at Runneymead near Epsom…

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Video: Behind The Scenes of Swallows and Amazons (1974) – Ambleside Well-Dressing

Watch a behind-the-scenes video below, shot in 1973 during the filming of “Swallows and Amazons (1974)”. Sophie Neville, on a day off from filming “Swallows and Amazons”, watches the…

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Video: Behind The Scenes of Swallows and Amazons (1974) – Walking the Plank

Watch a behind-the-scenes video below, shot in 1973 during the filming of “Swallows and Amazons (1974)”. Whilst the sun shone on Derwent Water the cast and crew of “Swallows and Amazons” set up to film Captain Flint, played by Ronald Fraser, being captured…