While we are waiting to see the start of Nancy Blackett’s new season featured on the BBC’s Countryfile programme on Sunday 14th April at 7pm on BBC1, here are some photos showing what was going on behind the scenes on a chilly Good Friday. Peter Wilis and Matt Baker Photo: Claudia Myatt Filming Nancy Blackett Photo: Bryan Bonser […]
The start of Nancy Blackett's new season will be featured on the BBC's Countryfile programme on Sunday 14th April (7pm, BBC1). Nancy Blackett's relaunch for the start of the 2013 season was filmed on a chilly Good Friday at Robertson's Boatyard in Woodbridge, Suffolk, including a short sail on the River Deben amongst some unseasonal […]
Last Friday “Swallows and Amazons” was featured as the specialist subject of one contestant on the veteran BBC’s “Mastermind” quiz series. Sixteen questions were asked, drawing from topics across Arthur Ransome’s series of children’s novels, including two from “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea”, in which Nancy Blackett stars as the Goblin. The contestant, […]
You can now listen to yesterday's edition of BBC Radio 4's Open Country, featuring an interview with Arthur Ransome's cousin Richard Ransome, who describes how his own Lakeland childhood was not that different from the adventures of the Swallows and the Amazons, but feels that the magic element of imagination seems to be missing from […]
A cinema release date has been announced for the film for which Nancy Blackett did some scenes earlier this year. The date (possibly still provisional at this stage) is Friday 19th October. No actual venues have been announced. The film also has a new title. Called "Bomb" at the time of Nancy's filming, it is […]
Nancy Blackett's brief appearance in a film is in the can. Two days of filming (mostly interiors) were completed at Woolverstone in February. These were followed by a trip down to the Medway for sailing sequences shot at Queenborough in late March. The shooting was successful and the Trust's bank balance has been improved as […]
An recent interview with Oliver Rofix by students of the Centre for Journalism at the University of Kent at Medway. Jolly Olly, Oliver Rofix from Laura Garcia on Vimeo.
The 1999 BBC radio adaption of "Swallows and Amazons" is available on the BBC's iPlayer for the next days. Broadcast earlier this week on BBC Radio 4 Extra, the play is in two halves, each an hour long. Part one is available until 5:02AM on Wednesday 17th August, while part two us available until 5:02AM […]
The BBC Radio 4 programme, “Paddling with Peter Duck” is now available to stream via the BBC’s Radio Player indefinitely. In the programme, John McCarthy discovers some of the boats once owned by Arthur Ransome, including the Nancy Blackett, Coch-y-Bonddhu, Ragged Robin and Peter Duck. Click to listen (duration: 30 minutes)
Just a final reminder that "Paddling with Peter Duck", the BBC Radio 4 documentary featuring the Nancy Blackett, will be broadcast tomorrow at 11:30am. If you miss the programme, we will have the BBC iPlayer stream once it is available later in the day. However, we do not know if it will be accessable if […]
Just a quick reminder that the BBC radio documentary "Paddling with Peter Duck" will be broadcast next week. 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, Chairman of the Nancy Blackett Trust, recorded a segment with John […]
“Swallows and Amazons” the musical will be appearing at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, over the Christmas period. Announced today in the Stage and the theatre press, tickets went on sale for the reprise of the Bristol Old Vic production that premièred to rave reviews last December. Adapted by Helen Edmundson from the novel by Arthur […]
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