Drama on 3 - Amazonia

by Garry Lyons. Years before he found fame with Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome was swept up in the dramatic events of the Russian Revolution, living a dangerous double life as a journalist and agent for both the Bolsheviks and the Foreign Office. War, revolution, espionage and romance feature in this biographical portrait of one of our best-loved children's authors. Arthur Ransome ..... Rory Kinnear Evgenia Shelepina ..... Michelle Dockery Ivy ..... Katie Collier Foreign Office Minister, Lenin ..... Gordon Mounsey Lockhart, Trotsky ..... Mark Chatterton Russian Officer, Soldier ..... Joe Hughes Tabitha ..... Emily Herbert Young Arthur ..... George Herbert Soldier ..... Christopher Anderton Soldier ..... Christopher Arley Directed and produced by Melanie Harris.