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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'.
Personal stories about Sailing By by Ronald Binge, which was chosen by the BBC as the musical interlude to be played every night before the Shipping Forecast.
Across two episodes, of the Radio 4 Continuity team, the voices of the Shipping Forecast, travel to some of the areas described in the forecast: Lundy, Dogger, Forth, Irish Sea, Wight.
The voices of Continuity also meet the residents, sailors, fishermen, radio lovers and many others who live and work on the coastal areas – and who have a connection to the Shipping Forecast.
Click on this link for Shipping Forecast – 100: an immersive feature celebrating one of the BBC's most important and respected broadcasts.
Charlie Connelly's voyage in search of the Shipping Forecast. Read by Tom Goodman-Hill. (Radio 4 Extra)
Forty years after the Penlee lifeboat disaster, a poetic, drama-documentary, weaving together monologue, recorded testimonies and the genuine radio communications from the disaster.
It's the most intimate moment of the Radio 4 schedule: the late-night Shipping Forecast, read every night at 00:48. But who is really listening along, and why?
In celebration of 100 years of the Shipping Forecast on our airwaves, Roger McGough is ed by Paul Farley to share the poems it has inspired.
As part of Radio 4's marking of 100 years of broadcasting the Shipping Forecast, leading fans of radio explain what the Shipping Forecast means to them – and take the chance to finally read it on air
Archive on 4: Historian Jerry Brotton explores how Britain's maritime heritage has shaped us in ways we have forgotten.
Bestselling and award-winning Irish author Nuala O’Connor returns with the intimate and thrilling portrayal of the life of 18th-century pirate, Anne Bonny.
An atmospheric gathering storm of a documentary exploring the extraordinary history of the Beaufort Scale – a system designed to help find language for the wind.
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