Watch a behind-the-scenes video below, shot in 1973 during the filming of “Swallows and Amazons (1974)” at Bowness-on-Windermere, the location…
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s nine-hour marathon reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” took place on Saturday (21st October) at Pin Mill Sailing Club near Ipswich, before a large and…
The 80th Anniversary Marathon Reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” took place yesterday (21st October) on a sunny and blustery day at Pin Mill Sailing Club, where Arthur Ransome…
The TV star Griff Rhys Jones has been part of an 8 hour reading marathon to celebrate the author of Swallows and Amazons . Seven people read before him and 19 people followed in a continuous reading of Arthur Ransome’s We Didn’t Mean To Go to Sea …
This summer Nancy Blackett went on an epic eight-week sailing adventure in Holland, following her commemorative departure in a 40-boat flotilla from the Royal Harwich Yacht Club. Here are the stories…
We Didn’t Mean To Go To Sea, the seventh book in the Swallows and Amazons series, follows the Walker family as they manage to drift downstream from Felixstowe and Harwich into the North Sea. Mr Willis said: “The reading went very well indeed. The idea …
Watch a behind-the-scenes video of the Amazon boathouse, during the filming of Swallows and Amazons (1974), shot at ‘Beckfoot’ on…
Tomorrow (Saturday 21st October) is the 80th Anniversary Marathon Reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea”, so here’s the official programme for the day:
The book, published in 1937, is part of the Swallows and Amazons series and is set on the banks of the River Orwell. Chapters will be read aloud, from beginning to end, over around eight hours starting from 9am on Saturday. Libby Purves, Julia Jones …