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Charlie Connelly

Sabotaging since 10 Oct 2013

Charlie Connelly is a bestselling author and award-winning broadcaster. His ten books include Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round The Shipping Forecast, In Search of Elvis: A Journey To Find The Man Beneath The Jumpsuit and Our Man In Hibernia: Ireland, The Irish And Me. Three of his books have featured as Radio 4′s Book of the Week. Charlie was also a popular presenter on the BBC1 Holiday programme and co-presented the first three series of BBC Radio 4′s Traveller’s Tree with Fi Glover. As well as his books Charlie has written for most of the UK and Irish national newspapers including to his accountant’s spluttering disbelief the Financial Times and a range of magazines from The Oldie to Outdoor Fitness. His proudest moment however is contributing a feature to the 2011 Wisden Cricketer’s Almanack. He’d always hoped his first mention in its hallowed pages would be as one of the Five Cricketers Of The Year, but a feature will still do very nicely, thank you. Among other things, he has performed Blue Moon of Kentucky live on national television in Uzbekistan in a duet with the nation’s biggest pop star, been made an official ambassador for a breakaway Lithuanian republic, had Kate Adie whispering a Dustin Hoffman impersonation into his ear, been hounded by the press after being falsely accused by the Daily Mail of intending to annex the island of Rockall and been challenged via the media to a fist fight by Ben Fogle. All by accident..

My Articles

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Sport

Phillip Hughes: The Man Who Made Our Dreams Reality

#PutOutYourBats

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Film

Bernard Bresslaw: A Tribute To A British Comedy Legend Who Was So Much More

Known for his stand-out roles in the Carry On series, Bresslaw was about more than just that - an extraordinarily gifted actor and an intelligent, deep-thinking, sensitive man…

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Nostalgia

1980: The Year I Lost My Heart To Charlton & F.A.C.T.S

It was the year I realised I was rubbish at football. The year Charlton lost 6-0 to Wrexham, and the year the TV programme of my dreams first aired…

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