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…
Author: Swallows and Amazons
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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 …
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Swallows and Amazons: 5 ways to have your own outdoor adventure in the UK – The Independent
With the adventure-packed summer film Swallows and Amazons hitting cinemas today, and the school holidays in full swing, there’s no better time to kindle children’s sense of adventure and take them out for a fun-filled family adventure.
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Swallows and Amazons will give children (and adults) a heady sense of freedom and adventure – The Conversation UK
The hotly anticipated Swallows and Amazons film will introduce a whole new generation to the tales and adventures of John, Susan, Titty (renamed Tatty for a modern film audience) and Roger – who spend their summer holidays sailing, camping, fishing and …
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Swallows and Amazons (PG) – Aberdeen Evening Express
Adapted from Arthur Ransome’s beloved book, Swallows And Amazons is a charmingly old-fashioned tale of messing about on the river set in more innocent times before children became zombified slaves to their parents’ tablets and smartphones.
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Swallows and Amazons is a cracking yarn from a time when health ‘n’ safety was for duffers – Daily Mail
Ah, summer nostalgia! Revel in steam trains and sails and sheep, and remember, or wish you remembered, farm holidays and childhood freedom. Four siblings explore a Lake District island, suffer setbacks and discomforts and exhilarations as they find …
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Video Interview: Sophie Neville and David Wood on Making the Original Swallows and Amazons
On the eve of the release of the new Swallows and Amazons film, watch this revealing interview by Cinemaniacs.
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Brilliant Roger, the man I knew – Camden New Journal
THE opening of the film Swallows and Amazons this week brings back memories of Roger. Who is Roger? In the film and the children’s classic he is one of the children whom the author Arthur Ransome had met and then immortalised while holidaying in the Lakes. And Roger? Well, I met him in real life…