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Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry

Episode 2

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Sailing from Felixstowe to Singapore on board the Kendal, journalist Rose George discovers how the invention of containers revolutionised transport, fuelled globalisation and effectively shrank our world.
Read by Susie Riddell.
Abridger: Laurence Wareing
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. Show less

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