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If I was to say ‘Viking, Cromarty, Dogger, Fisher, FitzRoy’ to you, there’s a decent chance you might not have any idea what I was talking about. But there are a significant amount of people for whom ...

An enigmatic nautical bulletin that has transmitted across dark waters for a whole century, it has beguiled everyone from Carol Ann Duffy to Blur – and offered a very British comfort to people across ...

Two days before Glastonbury, the ‘Patchwork performer’ recorded his own shipping forecast for the Crossed Wires Festival The Shipping Forecast is something you absorb unconsciously if you live in the ...

Tune into serenity with the BBC Shipping Forecast, a weather report from deep in the analog era. By Grace Linden Most nights I don’t sleep well, so to relax, I often listen to audiobooks or the radio.

The Shipping Forecast provides an “oasis of calm”, Jarvis Cocker said as he marked the 100th anniversary of it being broadcast on the BBC. Produced by the Met Office on behalf of the Maritime and ...