Ahead of Nancy Blackett’s 90th Anniversary launch on Thursday, the Nancy Blackett Trust President, Peter Willis, spoke to BBC Radio Suffolk’s Lesley Dolphin about Arthur Ransome, Nancy Blackett and the anniversary. The 8-minute long interview was broadcast on Wednesday 28th April, and you can download it here or listen to it below…
You can now catch up with the recent online marathon reading of Arthur Ransome’s The Picts and the Martyrs, the fourth marathon reading from the Swallows and Amazons series to have taken place in the past four years. The event was organised by writer and lecturer Chris Routledge, who was also behind the live readings […]
You can listen again this week to the 2011 BBC Radio 4 documentary Paddling With Peter Duck, where John McCarthy travels around the UK visiting and sailing in Ransome’s boats. The half-hour programme features John McCarthy exploring the life of Arthur Ransome through the boats he has owned, including Nancy Blackett and Peter Duck. Peter Willis, then Chairman […]
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s Chairman Peter Willis was interviewed by afternoon presenter Lesley Dolphin on BBC Radio Suffolk on January 10th. Topics covered included Peter’s recent receipt of the RYA Lifetime Commitment Award, how Arthur Ransome acquired Nancy Blackett, the origins of the Nancy Blackett Trust, the upcoming Woodbridge Maritime Film Festival and Brian Hammett Memorial […]
The 1974 “Swallows and Amazons” film music was composed by Wilfred Josephs, best known for producing the theme music for “I,Claudius”, “Enemy at the Door”, “The Prisoner” and “Pollyanna”. You can listen to his introduction & end title music for “Swallows and Amazons” below, while the film itself is available on BBC iPlayer for UK viewers until 31st […]
Sophie Neville spoke yesterday (24th July) on BBC Radio Cumbria to Adam Powell about the special screening of the 1974 “Swallows and Amazons” film that will be shown in Keswick this Saturday (28th July). Sophie, who played Titty Walker in the film, will introduce it and host a Q&A session afterwards, while the dinghy Swallow that appeared in the […]
Here’s your chance to catch up with yesterday evening’s interview on BBC Radio Norfolk, where mate Andy Morley spoke to presenter Matthew Gudgin live from Great Yarmouth about Nancy Blackett’s return to the Norfolk Broads… Listen using the player below or download it here (duration 4:31, size 5MB, broadcast 11th July 2018). Header photo: Andy […]
You can now listen to the short interview that Sophie Neville gave to BBC Radio Cumbria ahead of the Swallows and Amazons events held in the Lake District over this Spring Bank Holiday weekend. Sophie spoke to Mike Zeller on Thursday 24th May about how, 45 years ago to the day, she was filming swimming […]
Here’s another chance for you to listen to Nancy Blackett Trust President Peter Willis’s interview about his new book “Good Little Ship: Arthur Ransome, Nancy Blackett and the Goblin”, first broadcast last month. Peter Willis was interviewed by BBC Radio Suffolk’s Lesley Dolphin on 18th December 2017, and you can listen to the interview here: […]
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s Chairman Peter Willis was interviewed by afternoon presenter Lesley Dolphin on BBC Radio Suffolk on October 9th. Topics covered included the upcoming 80th Anniversary Marathon Reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” at Pin Mill, discovering and rediscovering the “Swallows and Amazons” stories, how the Nancy Blackett Trust happened, the […]
Here’s another chance to listen to the BBC Radio Cumbria interview about the Swallows and Amazons Marathon Reading that was held by the Coniston Boating Centre on 3rd September 2017. Presenter Sally Moon interviewed Dr. Chris Routledge (who organised the event) on 28th August. (Duration: 09:54) Header photo: Eileen Jones
Peter Willis, President of the Nancy Blackett Trust, was interviewed live on BBC Radio Suffolk’s James Hazell Show last Saturday (21st May), for the weekend open days held by the Trust as part of the RYA’s national Push the Boat Out week. The interview was broadcast live in a number of short segments during the late morning. You can […]
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