“Charlie is always warm, funny and engaging…I actually sent him a fan letter - and I've never done that to anyone in my life before.” Bernard Sumner, New Order
Charlie is a bestselling author, award-winning broadcaster and accomplished live performer. Three of his books have been selected as BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week including Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast, one of the biggest-selling travel books of the current millennium.
A former presenter on the BBC TV Holiday programme, Charlie has fronted documentaries and series for Radio 4 and written radio comedy scripts for the BBC and RTÉ. He writes and presents the popular Coastal Stories podcast.
His one-man show Attention All Shipping is proving hugely popular with venues and audiences across Britain and Ireland, going down a, ahem, storm in venues from Cornwall to Shetland, Castlebar to Cambridge.