Attention All Shipping: A Celebration of The Shipping Forecast

As the shipping forecast embarks on its second century, author and broadcaster Charlie Connelly brings the quirky broadcast vividly to life, celebrating what he regards as the greatest invention of the modern age.

Delving into the history of the forecast and the extraordinary people who made it, Charlie explains how it is possible for ‘rain later’ to be ‘good’, celebrates its wide cultural impact and presents his case for the shipping forecast being our finest achievement