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4. Fastnet, Irish Sea, Rockall

Charlie Connelly visits the centre of Irish emigration and cycles the TT course (after a fashion). Read by Tom Goodman-Hill.

The shipping forecast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ radio is as familiar as the sound of Big Ben chiming the hour. Yet recognisable though the sea areas are by name, few people give much thought to where they are or what they contain. Charlie Connelly sets off on a journey into the forecast to find out.

Charlie Connelly visits the centre of Irish emigration and cycles the TT course (after a fashion).

"I wasn't able to visit the next sea area on the list, but then until recently more people had been to the moon than had been to Rockall."

Read by Tom Goodman-Hill

Written by Charlie Connelly

Abridged by Beatrice Colin

Produced by Gaynor MacFarlane

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in 2004.

15 minutes

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