Charlie Connelly is a bestselling author and award-winning broadcaster. He is the author of nine books including Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round The Shipping Forecast, And Did Those Feet: Walking Through 2000 Years of British and Irish History and the forthcoming Our Man In Hibernia: Ireland, The Irish and Me. His books have been selected as BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week on two occasions while the audio version of Attention All Shipping was voted the second greatest audiobook of all time in a public poll.
Before moving to Ireland in 2008 he was a presenter on the prime-time BBC television Holiday programme and co-presented the first three series of the popular BBC Radio 4 series Traveller’s Tree.
He has written for a number of newspapers and publications including The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Times, Irish Examiner, Daily Telegraph and the Financial Times.
He lives in Dublin with a large collection of ukuleles.
