Attention All Shipping - Charlie Connelly

My mother is an avid listener of Radio 4 and so I grew up listening to the Archers, the Round Britain Quiz, the Afternoon Play and, my favourite, the Shipping Forecast. I suppose it's quite an odd "favourite" for a child but I always felt there was something exciting and just a little exotic about the Shipping Forecast. The places had strange names - Dogger, Fitzroy, German Bight - and the way in which the report was given was like no other weather report I'd heard on television or radio - "rain later, good"; now, unless you want your garden watered, can you imagine following "rain later" with ... more