One Week to The Homing Stone and Old Peter’s Russian Tales

Wednesday, 13 July, 7.00pm: A dramatic performance of Arthur Ransome’s classic Russian folk-tales, and his perilous escape from Russia.

Hugh Lupton is Arthur Ransome’s great-nephew and one of Britain’s foremost oral story-tellers. As such he is uniquely qualified to tell The Homing Stone, his own work recounting Arthur Ransome’s escape from Russia in 1919, and some of Old Peter’s Russian Tales, his great-uncle’s classic versions of traditional Russian folk-stories.

“Hugh Lupton’s storytelling art is sheer wizardry in the guise of utter simplicity… a packed house sat in a thrall of enchantment, no movement, no intrusive sounds…” (Eastern Daily Press).

Christina Hardyment Delivers Inaugural Lecture

Christina Hardyment delivered the Trust’s first Camp Fires public talk at Brantwood this evening.

Almost 50 people gathered in the studio at Brantwood to hear Christina talk aboout The Lake in the North. As one of Arthur Ransome’s Literary Executors, and the author of Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint’s Trunk, Christina was highly-qualified to talk about the places and people who helped to inspire Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons novels.