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.
Back in 1973 a film crew and actors descended on the Lake District to make a full-length feature film of author Arthur Ransome’s classic children’s story Swallows and Amazons . The group included 12-year-old Sophie Neville, who had been cast as …
Sophie Neville has received many letters from fans since the publication of her memoir “The Making of Swallows and Amazons (1974)”. Publishers the Lutterworth Press have shared this one…
If you want to give something this Christmas that your recipient can use throughout the next year, then give them membership of the Nancy Blackett Trust. The Nancy Blackett Trust offers its members…
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…
The first-ever Nancy Blackett Book Month has been such a success that it’s now extended to the end of the year, with all the existing special offers continuing, and some new ones being added –…
Stock up on your Christmas gifts from our Swallows and Amazons Shop and you will help Arthur Ransome’s favourite yacht, Nancy Blackett, keep sailing. Whether you want to give a “Swallows and Amazons” present to a special someone..
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…
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…