Travel Feature: Paddle Off For Lakes Adventure – Evening Express
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.
Author: Swallows and Amazons
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Ransome note – ‘Swallows and Amazons’ – The Irish Times
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)…
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Swallows and Amazons review – nostalgic adaptation – The Guardian
Swallows and Amazons review – nostalgic adaptation. 3 / 5 stars. Arthur Ransome’s 1930 classic of bracing outdoor fun is brought to big-screen life.
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Video: Sophie Neville and Seren Hawkes on Both Swallows and Amazons Films
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…
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Why it wasn’t all plain sailing for Swallows and Amazons’ author – The Guardian (blog)
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…
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Swallows and Amazons book review, 1930 – archive – The Guardian (blog)
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 …
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Swallows and Amazons films profiled on BBC South Today – Sophie Neville
‘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…
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Video: BBC Interview with Dick and Desmond Kelsall
With today’s release of the new Swallows and Amazons, the BBC Archive has posted the following video on Arthur Ransome from 1984, which features Dick and Desmond Kelsall: With the Swallows and Amazons movie released today, here is a nice little piece from 1984 on author, Arthur Ransome.https://t.co/Xuq1RtE4Qo — BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) August 19, 2016 Originally…
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Swallows and Amazons: Kids flying high in a gentle yarn – Belfast Telegraph
While her husband is away at sea on a naval destroyer, Mrs Walker (Kelly Macdonald) spirits her four children – John (Dane Hughes), Susan (Orla Hill), Tatty (Teddie-Rose Malleson-Allen) and Roger (Bobby McCulloch) – away for the summer break to stay …