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 finds the trunk, which contains the memoirs on which Turner had been working, and is rewarded with Turner's green parrot. James Turner appears in some ways to be modelled on Ransome himself. The story, set in August 1929, includes a good deal of everyday Lakeland life from the farmers to charcoal burners working in the woods; corned beef, which the children fancifully refer to as pemmican, and ginger beer and lemonade, which they call grog, appear as regular food stuff for the campers; island life also allows for occasional references to the story of Robinson Crusoe. See also List of