Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast by Charlie Connelly

Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast

Charlie Connelly

13 hours, 32 minutes first pub 2004 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history travel adventurous funny reflective slow-paced
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This solemn, rhythmic intonation of the shipping forecast on BBC radio is as familiar as the sound of Big Ben chiming the hour. Since its first broadcast in the 1920s it has inspired poems, songs and novels in addition to its intended objective of...

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