The August Bank Holiday is fast approaching and with the UK experiencing a well-timed heatwave, now is the time to get out and about. TripAdvisor has put together its top ten best-rated natural outdoor attractions around the UK – and they’re all stunning…
Swallows And Amazons sailed to a non-final $884,000 (£675,613) UK debut from its 452 sites through Studiocanal.
Call it divine intervention but I’m sure Saint Herbert is watching over me as I pass my first bushcraft test at one of Britain’s most heavenly destinations.
Sir, – I write in response to Donald Clarke’s review of the new ‘Swallows and Amazons’ film (“Oh golly-gosh! We’re in the wrong century”, August 18th)…
Swallows and Amazons review – nostalgic adaptation. 3 / 5 stars. Arthur Ransome’s 1930 classic of bracing outdoor fun is brought to big-screen life.
Sophie Neville and Seren Hawkes feature in this short TV profile of both the 1974 and 2016 “Swallows and Amazons” films, which was broadcast on…
In an article heralding the new film of Swallows and Amazons released yesterday, the Daily Telegraph pointed out that Arthur Ransome saw the children’s novel as his last chance of popular success as an author…
Children’s books are probably the most difficult of all to write; they are certainly the most difficult to review. For children alone can properly judge their worth, and children, very wisely, never review. An adult has to refer back to his own …
‘Can you be in Cowes at 9.00am tomorrow morning?’ I was asked. BBC South Today explained that they’d like to interview me about being in ‘Swallows and Amazons’ back in 1974…