The Swallows and Amazons episode of the series The Secret Life of Books returns to the BBC tomorrow, with an early morning broadcast on BBC4, followed by a month’s availability on BBC iPlayer.
The episode features scenes with author Christina Hardyment and Geraint Lewis of the Arthur Ransome Trust, including some filmed on Coniston Water.
In the episode former journalist and keen amateur sailor John Sergeant takes to the water in the wake of the heroes of Swallows and Amazons, and learns how a globe-trotting foreign correspondent and acquaintance of Lenin and Trotsky came to perfect a new, more authentic kind of children’s literature that featured real children doing real things in real places.
The episode will be shown at 12:50am on BBC4 on Tuesday 21st April and available here on BBC iPlayer shortly after broadcast for a month.
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