Swallows and Amazons

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BBC Radio 7 has started broadcasting a radio adaptation of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons. So far I've listened to about 20 minutes of it, enough to confirm my deep sense of irritation that I missed out on this book when I was a child. Not sure whether I'm going to keep listening to the adaptation, or just go and get a copy of the book. (Not that the adaptation isn't charming - I just usually prefer to be introduced to a work via the original rather than an adaptation.)