From Seamus Heaney, to Carol Ann Duffy, Radio 4’s Shipping Forecast has always provided inspiration to poets. As part of We British: An Epic In Poetry, Radio 4 reclaimed this ode to the nation ...

Atlantic low 1002 expected northeast of Iceland 989 by same time. Issued at: 23:15 UTC on 1st Apr Southerly 4 to 6, decreasing 2 or 3 at times in southeast. Slight or moderate. Fair. Good.

Show more A couple of years ago, Al Ryan - a continuity announcer on BBC Radio 4 - started asking people to get in touch to tell him what the Shipping Forecast and Sailing By meant to them.

The Shipping Forecast, providing predictions by the ... rhythmic delivery of the forecast by one of BBC Radio 4's silky-voiced continuity announcers has turned the forecast into something of ...

The Shipping Forecast was first broadcast on radio ... and the way that, twice a night on BBC’s Radio 4, it floats an idea of ...