- I loved playing the part of Titty in the EMI film 'Swallows & Amazons', made on location in the Lake District back in 1973. It has been such an enduring success that children all over the world still call me Titty. It's a sweet name. They'll see me in the street and call out, 'Hello, Titty! How are you?' It can turn a few heads.
- I was once staying at Bank Ground Farm in the Lake District to record an interview for the BBC with Ben Fogle, when two Japanese ladies arrived to stay there. They flung up their hands and screamed in delight. The name Titty echoed from the hills of Cumbria.
- A lot of people end up on my website after searching for navy blue gym knickers. They are disappointed to find nothing but wholesome information.'
- Parents want their children to have a 'Swallows and Amazons' childhood. They want to take their children to the cinema to watch the film that had a great influence on their life. I meet so many sailors who say, 'I am sailing this dinghy because of Arthur Ransome, because we saw your film and we though, perhaps we could do this.'
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