T he Shipping Forecast was first broadcast on radio in 1924, and Meg Clothier begins her book of the same name – written to celebrate the centenary – with a succinct and insightful summary of ...

Gavin and Stacey character Nessa is one of a raft of famous voices who will recreate old versions of the Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4 on New Year's Day to celebrate 100 years of the weather report ...

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 ...

Gale warnings are in effect in the following locations: Issued at: 00:15 UTC on 28th Jan Low Ireland 962 expected Humber 983 by 1800 Tuesday. Low Viking 970 losing its identity Issued at: 00:15 ...

It's been confirmed that BBC Radio 4 will celebrate 100 hundred years of the Shipping Forecast being broadcast on the BBC with a full day of special programming on January 1, including a reading ...

The Shipping Forecast was always very important and useful to her.” It comes following the finale of Gavin & Stacey which aired on Christmas Day (December 25) which saw Smithy (James Corden ...

The Shipping Forecast was always very important and useful to her.” During the final episode of Gavin And Stacey this year, which attracted the highest Christmas ratings since 2008 with an ...

Actress Ruth Jones reprised her role on a special day for the Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4 to celebrate 100 years of the weather report.

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 ...

Celebrities join with BBC to celebrate ‘national poem’ for seafarers Ruth Jones will reprise her role as Vanessa “Nessa” Jenkins to read Radio 4’s Shipping Forecast as the programme ...

Gavin and Stacey character Nessa is one of a raft of famous voices who will create old versions of the Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4 to celebrate 100 years of the weather report. Barry Island's ...

To mark 100 years of the Shipping Forecast, the historian Jerry Brotton explores the sea shapes left in the land. He asks, where are the traces of this lost world and how have we been defined by our ...