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

Episode 2

Duration: 15 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 LW

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

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