麻豆约拍

Today most of us are unaware of the impact of the sea on our lives: we live in cites and go to the seaside on holiday to enjoy the waves and the views. Many in past generations would have looked out at the sea and understood it in very different ways. They would have seen shipping lanes, the catch coming in, the weather changing, the day they were having. To mark 100 years of the Shipping Forecast, the historian Jerry Brotton explores how Britain is shaped by its maritime past, even now the ships have gone. Jerry uses archive and interviews which weave together the most surprising impact of our maritime past on law and politics; trade and industry; science and technology; and literature and the arts.