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The Voyage of the Swallow

Eric Pringle - The Voyage of the Swallow

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How "the man who hated children" Arthur Ransome wrote his classic 'Swallows and Amazons'.

How "the man who hated children" Arthur Ransome wrote his classic 'Swallows and Amazons'. With Richard Briers and Susannah York.

Published in 1930, the classic adventure novel Swallows and Amazons was written by "the man who hated children", journalist Arthur Ransome.

Eric Pringle 's drama tells the story of the events leading up to publication of the book.

Starring Richard Briers as Arthur Ransome and Susannah York star as his second wife, Evgenia Ransome.

Arthur Ransome    ......    Richard Briers
Evgenia    ......        ......    Susannah York 
CP ScottMichael Kilgarriff 
Dora Altounyan    ......    Theresa Streatfield 
Molly    ......    Adjoa Andoh
Tabitha    ......    Siriol Jenkins
Ted Scott    ......    Vincent Brimble 
Ernest Altounyan    ......    Philip Sully
Ivy    ......    Ann Davies
Trotsky    ......    Philip Beckwith 
Cyril Ransome    ......    Max Harvey
Young Arthur    ......    Nicholas Shelton
Young Billy    ......    Neil Roberts
Roger    ......    Simon Radford 
Nancy    ......    Kate Ryan
Susan    ......    Daisy Heath
Titty    ......    Annie Roddam

Music by Steafan Hannigan and Simon Care

Director: Adrian Bean

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1991

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