Swallows and Bolsheviks Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Arthur Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of novels featuring the rollicking adventures of childhood sailing in the Lake District. But according to a new biography, behind this idyll of Englishness, Ransome himself was a much more exotic figure, as Matt Prodger reports. MOST POPULAR VIDEO/AUDIO Editor's Choice Improvements to the BBC News Website



