Charlie Connelly is a popular stage performer, bestselling author and award-winning broadcaster.

Charlie launched his one-man theatre show celebrating the shipping forecast in 2024 and has been touring far and wide ever since, entertaining audiences from Penzance to Shetland, Castlebar to Norwich.

He is the author of nineteen books including the quarter-of-a-million-selling Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round The Shipping Forecast and Last Train to Hilversum: In Search of the Magic of Radio.

Three of Charlie’s books have been selected as BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, read by Martin Freeman, Stephen Mangan and Tom Goodman-Hill.

Charlie’s broadcast credits include presenting the BBC Holiday programme, co-presenting Rado 4’s Traveller’s Tree with Fi Glover and radio documentaries on topics ranging from Noel Coward to Admiral Robert Fitzroy. He has written comedy scripts for BBC radio in the UK and RTÉ radio in Ireland.

He lives in Scotland where he misses Charlton Athletic terribly.

 Charlie’s book Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast can be ordered here