Gabriel Woolf the Joyful Company of Singers. Woolf has abridged and recorded all of Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. He was also elected President of the Arthur Ransome Society. He is married to the opera singer Dame Felicity Lott and they have a daughter, Emily (b. 1984). He also has two children from his earlier marriage to Zara E Green. Gabriel Woolf Gabriel Woolf (born 2 October 1932) is an English film, radio and television actor. His roles include Sir Percival in the 1953 film, "Knights of the Round Table" and Sutekh in the 1975 "Doctor Who" serial
Swallows and Amazons series shaggy heads of hair or hats". The sixth book in the series, "Pigeon Post", won the inaugural Carnegie Medal from the Library Association in June 1937, recognising the best 1936 children's book by a British subject. It was reviewed in "The New York Times" the month after J. B. Lippincott & Co. of Philadelphia published the first U.S. edition. Ellen Lewis Buell welcomed the latest work in the six-year-old series that had firmly established "a special niche in juvenile literature". She noted the children's "vivid collective imagination which turned play into serious business" (hunting a gold mine on the moors)