Former journalist and keen amateur sailor John Sergeant takes to the water in the wake of the plucky young heroes of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons, and learns how a globe-trotting foreign correspondent and acquintance of Lenin and Trotsky came to perfect a new, more authentic kind of children's literature that featured real children doing real things in real places.
| Name | Type | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Sergeant | Writer | ||
| John Sergeant | Host | Presenter | |
| John Sergeant | Guest Star | ||
| Jenny MacLeod | Director |