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 […]
With today’s release of the new Swallows and Amazons, the BBC Archive has posted the following video on Arthur Ransome from 1984, which features Dick and Desmond Kelsall: With the Swallows and Amazons movie released today, here is a nice little piece from 1984 on author, Arthur Ransome.https://t.co/Xuq1RtE4Qo — BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) August 19, 2016
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 […]
A signed copy of Sophie Neville’s book “The Making of SWALLOWS & AMAZONS (1974)” is part of a prize bundle being given away by Saga to celebrate tomorrow’s release of “Swallows and Amazons” in cinemas across the U.K. The other prizes include three DVDs (Shaun The Sheep, Paddington and The Railway Children), stickers, badges, flags, activity […]
Nicola Farr and Richard Wainwright tell the story of this year’s August Cruise. During her recent August cruise, Nancy Blackett and crew visited Aldeburgh Yacht Club’s Lapwing ‘World Championship’ event. The Lapwing is a 12ft clinker dinghy, exclusive to the Aldeburgh Yacht Club, and built between the 1940s and 1960s. Following a great sail up […]
To celebrate the new “Swallows and Amazons” film opening in cinemas on 19th August, we’re giving you the chance to win a pile of Swallows and Amazons goodies (pictured), courtesy of Studiocanal. To enter, you need to have a Twitter account and: retweet the embedded tweet below also follow the “SwallowsAmazonsNews” Twitter account Retweet and […]
The Nancy Blackett Trust held its 20th Anniversary AGM on Saturday 2nd July at its traditional venue of the Royal Harwich Yacht Club. During the day Nancy Blackett was available to members for short sailing trips downriver to Pin Mill. See the photos in our Flickr album of the day.
Peter Willis reviews Eastern Angles’ new production of the stage version of the Ransome classic. You enter via a proper checkpoint, then drive for ages across a seemingly disused, but actually repurposed airfield (a film studio here, an onion grading depot there) until you come to a huge hangar-like building. This is the Hush House, […]
The cast of Eastern Angles’ production of “We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea” took a few hours out of rehearsals on Thursday to literally learn the ropes. They visited the Nancy Blackett – Arthur Ransome’s own boat and the original of the Goblin in the book (and play) – at Woolverstone Marina to find […]
Sail into summer with this beautiful new range of Swallows & Amazons teatowels and fine bone china, now available from the Nancy Blackett Shop. The pure cotton teatowels come in three distinctive designs, all featuring illustrations and motifs from Arthur Ransome’s “Swallows and Amazons”, including the famous quote about duffers: “Better drowned than duffers if […]
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 […]
Nancy Blackett is having a weekend of open days on 21st and 22nd May as part of the RYA’s Push the Boat Out event, which sees hundreds of sailing clubs and training centres up and down the country offering free or low cost ‘have a go’ sailing taster sessions and open days. Nancy Blackett’s two […]
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