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The fastest sailor around the world is now the fastest Star in a Reasonably Priced Car. Ellen MacArtur, Patron of the Nancy Blackett Trust, saw off fifty-nine other celebrities on the BBC's Top Gear show yesterday when she posted the fastest lap time of them all. Ellen was invited to take the challenge [...]  Nancy Blackett features in this evening's episode of Meridian TV's "River Walks", hosted by Charlie Dimmock. Tonight's programme focuses on the River Arun, and includes a section on Hillyards, the Littlehampton boatbuilder where Nancy Blackett was built. Nancy happened to be there herself when the programme was being filmed – revisiting her birthplace for [...] Following the release in March by the National Records Office of two reconstituted government files concerning Arthur Ransome's years in Russia, the BBC commissioned a documentary film which Griff Rhys Jones investigated whether Ransome was a British spy or a Bolshevik sympathiser during the Russian Revolution in 1917. Griff Rhys Jones also tracked [...] Nancy Blackett's historic visit to Hillyard's boatyard in Littlehampton was later covered by 'Practical Boatowner'. The article is entitled "Nancy Comes Home" and may be read here. Nancy Blackett's historic visit to Hillyard's boatyard in Littlehampton was covered in the local press. 'Littlehampton Today' published an article entitled "Nancy's Amazon journey", which may be read here. Nancy Blackett has gained a place in ‘Classic Boat’ magazine‘s listing of the top 200 classic boats. The list was compiled, with votes from readers, to mark the magazine’s 200th issue, cover-dated February 2005, and on sale from mid-January. Nancy Blackett is in the top half of the table, which is particularly gratifying as [...] The Nancy Blackett Trust's Patron Ellen MacArthur is interviewed in the July/August 2004 edition of "E-Motion", South West Trains' passenger magazine. You can read the article here. |  | ||||
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