"The Shipping Forecast," presented twice on weekdays on the BBC and thrice on weekends, is 100-years-old this week. It broadcasts weather forecasts for the seas that surround the British Isles. You ...

Fascination with the weather and love of the sea combine in the Shipping Forecast. As Rob Stepney explains, it is also a honey pot for poets who have both parodied and eulogised it. It is 100 years ...

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 ...

Today marks 150 years since the Met Office began issuing weather bulletins for ships at sea, a practice which eventually become the Shipping Forecast. Broadcast four times a day on BBC radio since ...

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