Mate Andy Morley shows what Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett and her crew got up to last week on Breydon Water and at Reedham, where she was sailing on the Norfolk Broads for the first time in twenty years, and meeting…
Actress Sophie Neville will be giving a talk on ‘The Secrets of Filming Swallows and Amazons ‘ at the Alhambra Cinema in Keswick later this month. Sophie starred as Titty Walker in the 1974 film based on the classic Arthur Ransome story set …
Listen to Wednesday evening’s interview on BBC Radio Norfolk, where mate Andy Morley spoke to presenter Matthew Gudgin live from Great Yarmouth about Arthur Ransome’s…
Marooned by a gusty northerly wind one day, and suffering a lumpy sea the next, Nancy Blackett and her crew finally made it to Great Yarmouth, as mate Andy Morley resumes his tale…
Last month the Walton and Frinton Yacht Club hosted the Old Gaffers Association’s Swallows and Amazons weekend in the Walton Backwaters – Arthur Ransome’s ‘Secret…
Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Bill Buckhurst, will be performed in rep alongside The Tempest and a new version of Swallows and Amazons by the Tony nominee playwright Bryony Lavery. Artistic director Alex Clifton said: “We simply …
Arthur Ransome’s Nancy Blackett was at the Royal Harwich Yacht Club on 30th June for the 21st Annual General Meeting of the Nancy Blackett Trust. View the photo album from the day below, and…
Sophie Neville. President of the Arthur Ransome Society, was invited to talk about making the BBC TV classic serial ‘Coot Club’ and ‘The Big Six’ at the Norfolk Broads Yacht Club to help celebrate…
The new popular production of “Swallows and Amazons” at the Storyhouse theatre in Chester has received positive reviews by theatre critics. Writing in the Reviews Hub, Jo Beggs says that the new adapation…