A marathon reading of the classic children’s story Swallows and Amazons will be staged this summer on the shore of the lake where the tale was set. The event, to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the author, Arthur Ransome, will take place at …
BBC Radio Suffolk visits Nancy’s ‘Push the Boat Out’ open weekend at Woolverstone, and roving reporter Simon Warr is shown how to tie a bowline knot by Peter Willis…
Over the course of the event, 30 films will be screened, including American classic Casablanca and Cumbrian favourite Swallows and Amazons . The film’s producer Nick Barton will host a Q&A session…
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Now he is preparing to direct four of the Maddermarket’s 2017 shows – Hay Fever, Swallows and Amazons , Nell Gwynn and The Wolves of Willoughby Chase…
This new year, 2017, will not only see the 20th anniversary of the Nancy Blackett Trust, but it will also be 80 years since the publication of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea“, and on a more sombre note, 50 years since Arthur Ransome died…
Visit England has declared 2017 the ‘Year of Literary Heroes’, highlighting anniversaries of great writers, including Arthur Ransome, who died 50 years ago in 1967 – and Suffolk’s Shotley Peninsula, which features in two of his books, and where his famous yacht Nancy Blackett is based, is joining in with gusto.
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Dubai International Film Festival (Diff) will hold a red-carpet gala for Swallows and Amazons on December 9 at Madinat Arena. The family film is one of three in the Cinema for Children programme at the 13th edition of Diff, taking place between December 7-14.
Fans of Arthur Ransome’s classic Lakes’ story Swallows and Amazons will have a chance to live the adventure for themselves next summer. Ambleside-based Swim the Lakes are hosting a weekend activity holiday which includes a sail on “Captain Flint’s houseboat” and a swim to Wild Cat Island.
As one of Scotland’s most acclaimed screenwriters, she helped create one of the biggest family films of 2016 with the Swallows and Amazons remake.