Designed to ensure safe sailing for those on the sea, a dedicated shipping forecast was first broadcast by the BBC in 1925.

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 ...

For a reviewer, a title such as Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good is something of a dare. This short-story collection – the third fiction work from Eley Williams, one of Granta’s Best Young British ...

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 ...

Like ships in the night: The Fighting Temeraire (1838) by J M W Turner - Alamy The Shipping Forecast was first broadcast on radio in 1924, and Meg Clothier begins her book of the same name – written ...

Not open for further replies. If you haven't evern heard it & don't have a clue what I'm talking about. A completely random post, but perhaps because of it's time of day on FM, the Shipping forecast ...

A stage show inspired by the BBC's Shipping Forecast is coming to the new Forest. Attention All Shipping: A Celebration of the Shipping Forecast, created by author and broadcaster Charlie Connelly, ...

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 Forecast, ...