Explore the Great Outdoors With This Weekend’s Swallows and Amazons Events
Make the most of our remaining summer days this weekend with these Swallows and Amazons events…
Author: Swallows and Amazons
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#TBT – The boats used for filming the BBC drama ‘Coot Club’ on the Norfolk Broads in 1983
I think Jim Searle might have given me this lovely photograph of Titmouse, and that it might have been taken when the boys from Norfolk who played the Death and Glories were given sailing lessons prior to filming in the summer of 1983…
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‘We must allow children some freedom to explore’ – so says the writer of the screenplay of the Swallows and Amazons film – Westmorland Gazette
“I don’t want them to be frightened of the world,” Mrs Walker says of her children, as she wonders whether she was right to let the four eldest sail off in a dinghy alone to discover an island in the middle of a huge Cumbrian lake. When I wrote those words…
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UK Box Office News – Screen Daily
The adaptation enjoyed a prosperous first seven days at the UK box office as it took in $1.81m (£1.39m)…
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Swallows and Amazons writer was a double agent for who fell in love with Trotsky’s secretary and risked his life to save her – Mirror
Arthur Ransome is one of Britain’s best-loved authors of children’s books – but he hid a very dramatic secret…
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Film fans flock to Cumbria cinemas to watch new Swallows and Amazons – NW Evening Mail
THE new Swallows and Amazons film – shot in Cumbria – has taken nearly £680,000 in its first week at the box office.
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Film: Swallows and Amazons – Varsity
When it comes to adapting many books written in the 1930s and 1940s onto the big screen, writers and directors typically face a tough challenge: maintaining the spirit of the era while allowing a modern audience to identify and engage with the child protagonists…
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Record-breaking Swallows and Amazons takes in over £670000 – News & Star
The new Swallows and Amazons film – shot in Cumbria – has taken nearly £680,000 in its first week at the box office.
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‘A time of innocence’ – Virginia McKenna on making Swallows and Amazons – The Telegraph
Virginia McKenna, the star of the 1974 adaptation of Swallows and Amazons, fondly remembers making the Vintage Classic on location in the Lake District. It was 43 years ago when Claude Watham, the director of the 1974 film of Swallows and Amazons, asked if I’d like to play the part of Mrs Walker…