Charlie Connelly is a bestselling author and award-winning broadcaster. His seven books include Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round The Shipping Forecast and most recently In Search of Elvis: A Journey To Find The Man Beneath The Jumpsuit. He is also a presenter on the BBC1 Holiday programme and BBC Radio 4's Traveller's Tree.
Among other things, he has performed 'Blue Moon of Kentucky' on national television in Uzbekistan in a duet with the nation's biggest pop star, been made the official ambassador to England of a breakaway Lithuanian republic, had Kate Adie whispering a Dustin Hoffman impersonation into his ear, been hounded by the press after being falsely accused by the Daily Mail of intending to annex the island of Rockall and been challenged via the media to a fist fight by Ben Fogle. All by accident.
Believe it or not, the ukulele is, at long last, cool. The ukulele. It's small. It's versatile. It's fun. Play one. Go on, you know you want to!
