In Reply to: Re: THE SECRET LIFE OF ARTHUR RANSOME - BBC2 posted by Owen Roberts on September 19, 2005 at 12:33:42:
The "Swallow look-alike" is in fact none other than AR's Coch-y-bonddhu herself on one of her escapades from the Windermere Steamboat Museum. Griff Rhys Jones first went out in her with a TARS member just to familiarise himself, then was able to do his solo run.