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

Susie Riddell

Eilidh McCreadie

Laurence Wareing

Rose George

Book of the Week: Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry: Episode 2

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

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BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry, Episode 2

On board the Kendal, Rose George discovers how container ships fuelled globalisation.

Sailing from Felixstowe to Singapore, journalist Rose George discovers how the invention of containers revolutionised transport and fuelled globalisation.

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.

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Journalist Rose George shines a light on the huge yet invisible global shipping industry

Journalist Rose George shines a light on the huge yet invisible global shipping industry. Abridged by Laurence Wareing. Read by Susie Riddell

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