The Nancy Blackett Trust will be featured on BBC Radio Suffolk this Friday (January 10th). President Peter Willis will be the guest on presenter Lesley Dolphin’s sofa between 3pm and 4pm. If you are outside of Radio Suffolk’s broadcast area you will be able to listen live on the internet via the BBC Sounds website. […]
Nancy Blackett can now be seen in this year’s Shotley Peninsula Guide, which promotes the area around Pin Mill. The free 40-page A4-size publication features a map of the Shotley Peninsula showing the Arthur Ransome Walking Trail, a double-page spread on Nancy Blackett, a further page on our Selina King photographic exhibition at the Pin […]
Nancy Blackett can now be seen all over East Anglia in more than 10,000 copies of two new free promotional magazines. The Shotley Peninsula Guide, a 40-page A4-size publication promoting the area around Pin Mill, features a double-page spread on Nancy Blackett, a further page on our Selina King photographic exhibition at the Pin Mill […]
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s nine-hour marathon reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” on Saturday 21st October received coverage in local media, including a short film shown on ITV Anglia News. The film included brief interviews with Griff Rhys Jones, Peter Willis and Sophie Neville, and you can watch it below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIIGetMA_jo?rel=0
The Nancy Blackett Trust’s nine-hour marathon reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” took place on Saturday (21st October) at Pin Mill Sailing Club near Ipswich, before a large and appreciative audience. It celebrated the 80th anniversary of the book’s publication, as well as commemorating the 50th anniversary of its author Arthur Ransome’s […]
There’s just a week to go to our Marathon Reading of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea”, starting 9am next Saturday, 21st October. We have our book, a First Edition, in honour of the book’s 80th anniversary (first published November 1937). We have our readers, including Griff Rhys Jones, Libby Purves and Sophie Neville. […]
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 […]
The new October/November 2017 issue of Classic Sailor magazine includes a six-page feature article about Nancy Blackett’s summer trip to the Netherlands. Classic Sailor is available in the shops from today (October 6th). And for Suffolk members, Nancy Blackett Trust President Peter Willis will be on BBC Radio Suffolk on Monday (October 9th) as the […]
Today’s dispatch from skipper Ian McGlynn reads: “We left Veere this morning at 10:30 with local writer Veronica Frenks on board to do an article on Nancy Blackett. There was no wind in the morning but enough for a gentle sail this afternoon. “We are now in Kortgene for the night. Dinner is cooking! All […]
Nancy Blackett was featured in a television preview of the Arthur Ransome Pin Mill Jamboree last Friday (12th May) on BBC Look East. The preview also featured short interviews with Peter Willis, President of the Nancy Blackett Trust, the children of Holbrook Academy, Suffolk rehearsing part of their play of “We Didn’t Mean to go to […]
One of the most ubiquitous and widely recognised publications in south Suffolk is to feature our Nancy Blackett on the front of its 2017 edition. The Harwich Haven Authority’s Yachting Guide to Harwich Harbour and its rivers is widely distributed to yacht and sailing clubs, chandleries and all sorts of other places where sailors could […]
Sophie Neville and Seren Hawkes feature in this short TV profile of both the 1974 and 2016 “Swallows and Amazons” films, which was broadcast on BBC South Today on Friday (19th August) to coincide with the general release of the new “Swallows and Amazons” film at cinemas across the UK and Ireland. For a behind-the-scenes […]
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