On the eve of the release of the new Swallows and Amazons film, watch this revealing interview by Cinemaniacs. David Wood wrote the screenplay for the original 1974 Swallows and Amazons film, while it was Sophie Neville’s first ever film. Sophie will also be appearing on BBC Radio Leeds tomorrow morning at 10.10am and on BBC […]
To celebrate the fortieth anniversary and release of the restored 1974 “Swallows and Amazons” film, the Nancy Blackett Trust has teamed up with Vintage Books and Studiocanal to offer you the chance to win a bumper prize comprising: a year’s free membership of the Nancy Blackett Trust; a full set of Arthur Ransome Vintage Children’s Classics; […]
You can now read our review and watch Nancy Blackett‘s brief appearance in episode 4 of “Britain and the Sea” below. First broadcast on BBC 1 on 8th December 2013, David Dimbleby introduced Pin Mill as the village that “captivated” Arthur Ransome, and the setting for “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea”, which he […]
A short behind-the-scenes video of David Dimbleby being filmed rowing out to Nancy Blackett at Pin Mill last Saturday. Nancy Blackett will be featured in his upcoming new BBC series which is due to be broadcast in November.
One of the Lanehead boathouses, from which Arthur Ransome learnt to sail, is for sale. Lanehead was once the home of W.G. Collingwood, with whom he was close friends. The Collingwoods owned a variety of boats, including a former fishing boat named Swallow, which Ransome later described as "the first of a long dynasty of […]
Last year Nancy Blackett appeared in the latest Sally Potter film “Ginger and Rosa”. Nancy’s scenes were filmed early in the year, and the film had a limited release in late summer. The video below is our cut of Nancy Blackett’s scenes, accompanied by a commentary from writer and director Sally Potter. It was first shown […]
A short video of Nancy Blackett on the River Orwell at Woolverstone after our AGM and Summer Social on 6th July 2013, on a warm and breezy afternoon.
Skip to video compilation Well, I think Countryfile did us proud, writes NBT chairman Peter Willis. Ten minutes’ airtime is good going, even if it did take most of the day to capture it. It all began with a phonecall about a fortnight before the shooting. “We’d like to film Nancy Blackett being launched,” said […]
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, […]
A new video of Nancy Blackett’s early evening trip on the Orwell before the Summer Social dinner of 16th June 2012. Music provided by MusicRevolution
Leukaemia survivor Oliver Rofix gave his first talk about his Round Britain Challenge at the RYA Dinghy Show last weekend. The Nancy Blackett Trust partly sponsored him a year ago for his sailing challenge to recruit new donors for the Anthony Nolan Trust. He completed his 2011 Round Britain Challenge in 215 days. You can watch our video of the highlights of his […]
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.
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