Attention All Shipping
- Author Charlie Connelly
- Narrator Charlie Connelly
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Run Time 13 hours and 42 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Travel and holiday, Travel writing.
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What to expect
Sitting at home listening to the shipping forecast can be a cosily reassuring experience. There's no danger of a westerly gale eight, veering southwesterly increasing nine later (visibility poor) gusting through your average suburban living room, blowing the Sunday papers all over the place and startling the cat.
Yet familiar though the sea areas are by name, few people give much thought to where they are or what they contain. In ATTENTION ALL SHIPPING Charlie Connelly wittily explores the places behind the voice, those mysterious regions whose names seem often to bear no relation to conventional geography. Armchair travel will never be the same again.
Critics Review
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An engaging and often very funny book in which a metropolitan man, buffeted by winds and high seas, travels from Norway’s smallest island to Europe’s westernmost pointing search of the reality behind the reassuring Radio 4 recital
Sunday Times -
A wonderfully eccentric study
Observer -
One of those simple yet brilliant ideas… A book that’s as gentle and pleasing as the shipping forecast itself
Daily Mail -
If listening to ‘Sailing By’ to the bitter end every night is the surest sign of a Radio 4 addict, then buying Charlie Connelly’s book runs it close
Independent on Sunday -
Armchair travelling will never be the same again
Western Mail -
He brings the shipping forecast to life, revealing the reality to be bizarre, quirky and fantastic
Guernsey Press
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