Attention All Shipping show set to come to Launceston this November
As the shipping forecast embarks on its second century, Charlie Connelly brings Attention All Shipping: A Celebration of the Shipping Forecast, his hilarious show celebrating its quirks and unique appeal, to Launceston Town Hall on 5th November at 7.30pm.
Attention All Shipping show set to come to Launceston this November
As the shipping forecast embarks on its second century, Charlie Connelly brings Attention All Shipping: A Celebration of the Shipping Forecast, his hilarious show celebrating its quirks and unique appeal, to Launceston Town Hall on 5th November at 7.30pm.

Paying tribute to what Connelly regards as the greatest invention of the modern age, Attention All Shipping asks how a weather forecast for mariners has captured the hearts of a nation from salty old sea dog to insomniac landlubber and how it’s possible for ‘rain later’ to be ‘good’.
“I’m really excited about bringing Attention All Shipping to Launceston,” says Connelly. “Being at the gateway to Cornwall and Cornwall being the gateway to the Atlantic Ocean, it feels like an appropriate place to be.”
Inspired by Connelly’s bestselling book of the same name, which has sold more than a quarter-of-a-million copies, this pacy, moving and hilarious show takes you all the way from Viking to South-East Iceland to ensure the shipping forecast will never sound the same again.
Attention All Shipping has been selling out theatres up and down the country from Penzance to Shetland at venues by the sea and miles inland, leading to Charlie appearing on BBC1’s The One Show and the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.
“The show is doing far better than I could ever have imagined,” he says. “One of the best aspects of touring Attention All Shipping is seeing first hand just how popular the shipping forecast is among a wide range of people all over the country.
“I’ve met all sorts of folk with a shared love of the shipping forecast, from pop stars to rear admirals, crusty old sea dogs to landlocked insomniacs with not a sea leg between them.”
The forecast celebrated its centenary in 2024, is marking its centenary as a BBC broadcast this year and shows no sign of declining in popularity any time soon.
“It’s like a beating of the national bounds,” says Connelly, “living proof that we are a maritime nation and we all have a little bit of sea water in our veins.
“The shipping forecast is an unadulterated force for good. It represents the very best of us. That’s why I’m delighted and honoured to celebrate it with so many fellow devotees up and down the land with Attention All Shipping.”