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.
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 …
On the eve of the release of the new Swallows and Amazons film, watch this revealing interview by Cinemaniacs.
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…
The release of the new film adaptation of Arthur Ransome’s classic, ‘Swallows And Amazons ‘ this Friday sees locations in Yorkshire and the Lake District brought to the big screen. ‘Swallows And Amazons ‘ is in cinemas nationwide from Friday 19th August …
A signed copy of Sophie Neville’s book “The Making of SWALLOWS & AMAZONS (1974)” is part of a prize bundle being given away by Saga to celebrate tomorrow’s release of “Swallows and Amazons” in cinemas across the U.K.
The Walker children in Arthur Ransome’s famous book – now a new film – were actually inspired by a family from the Syrian city of Aleppo.
It was the gondola that gave Ransome the idea for Captain Flint’s houseboat in Swallows and Amazons , and extracts from the novel regularly feature in a fascinating commentary, as the passenger boat makes its way around the lake.
This new adaptation of Arthur Ransome’s novel evokes a long-lost era in which kids didn’t just spend their days searching for Pokémon or playing Call Of Duty.