The Big Six even his own father acknowledges it. BBC produced a television series Swallows and Amazons Forever! based on "Coot Club" and "The Big Six" in 1984. The Big Six The Big Six is the ninth book of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books, published in 1940. The book returns Dick and Dorothea Callum, known as the Ds, to the Norfolk Broads where they renew their friendship with the members of the Coot Club. This book is more of a detective story as the Ds and Coot Club try to unravel a mystery that threatens the "Death and Glories"'
Swallows and Amazons series Ronald Fraser. In 1984, the BBC adapted the two Norfolk-set stories, "Coot Club" and "The Big Six", for television, titled "Swallows and Amazons Forever!" In 2010, a stage musical version of the first book in the series was created at Bristol Old Vic, adapted by Helen Edmundson with music by Neil Hannon, and directed by Tom Morris. The show was successful, and was taken on tour, including a stint in London's West End. A new film version of "Swallows and Amazons" by Harbour Pictures and BBC Films was released in the United Kingdom on 19 August 2016. Swallows and Amazons