Shipping Forecast Day, Radio 4, review: Gavin and Stacey’s Nessa rules the airwaves
What’s occurrin’ at sea? Is visibility tidy? Are conditions crackin’? Shipping Forecast Day (Radio 4) marked the maritime ...
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The Shipping Forecast Day
As Radio 4 marks one hundred years of the Shipping Forecast on the BBC, Paddy O'Connell guides us through the history and meaning of 'The Ships'. From the Royal Charter storm, through to the death ...
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BBC marks 100 years of ‘national treasure’ shipping forecast that’s inspired poets, bands
The BBC on Wednesday celebrates 100 years of a weather forecast for sailors in British waters that has inspired musicians and poets and become an immovable fixture on UK radio. The Shipping ...
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How to read the Shipping Forecast: BBC guide published '100 years too late' reveals the secrets of baffling radio bulletin
This year, the Shipping Forecast celebrates its 100th year of broadcast on the BBC. But only now has the broadcaster produced a beginner's guide, prompting presenter Jonny Dymond to joke on the ...
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BBC celebrates 100 years of ‘poetic’ shipping forecast
The Shipping Forecast has been called a 'cherished ritual' and one of the UK's 'national treasures' - Copyright AFP Adrian DENNIS The Shipping Forecast has been ...
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BBC Celebrates 100 Years Of 'Poetic' Shipping Forecast
The BBC on Wednesday celebrates 100 years of a weather forecast for sailors in British waters that has inspired musicians and poets and become an immovable fixture on UK radio. The Shipping ...
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Shipping Forecast Day, Radio 4, review: Gavin and Stacey’s Nessa rules the airwaves
What’s occurrin’ at sea? Is visibility tidy? Are conditions crackin’? Shipping Forecast Day (Radio 4) marked the maritime report’s centenary by drafting in Gavin & Stacey’s Nessa on ...
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BBC creates half-hour beginner’s guide to the Shipping Forecast ‘100 years late’
The BBC has produced a beginner’s guide to the Shipping Forecast to help listeners decode what it means 100 years since it began broadcasting the programme. The half-hour programme features ...
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HORATIO CLARE: The BBC Radio Four Shipping Forecast is a lyrical poem of places that glides us through a lullaby of sea and space - and it celebrates 100 years TODAY
Now the shipping forecast, issued by the Met Office on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency at double oh one five today Wednesday the 1st of January.' And from Cape Wrath to the Isles of ...