Posted by Robert Thompson on August 02, 1999 at 22:50:31 from tenor1.demon.co.uk:
In Reply to: S&A on BBC Radio4 August 8/15 posted by Peter Willis on August 01, 1999 at 17:53:01:
The BBC now has details of next Sunday's Swallows and Amazons -
BBCRadio 4 online
If my link doesn't work, here are the details:
3:00pm News; Classic Serial: Swallows and Amazons
A two-part dramatisation by David Wood of Arthur Ransome's children's classic. 1: The Lake District, 1929. On holiday with their mother, the four eldest Walker children form the crew of the Swallow and set sail for an island in the centre of a lake. When they encounter the crew of a rival ship, the Amazon, sparks begin to fly. With Penny Downie, Joe Sowerbutts, Phoebe Phillips, Flora Harris and John Paul Ekins.
The two-cassette version should be released next week - here is a picture of the cover:
Swallows and Amazons cassette
Amazon.co.uk do indeed have it here ready to send to you at £8.99, but the Internet Bookshop (AR website sponsers) will flog it to you at a measly old £6.29. Click here
Happy listening,
Robert Thompson
