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 ...

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.

Low northwest of Trafalgar 1008 slow-moving, deepening 994 by same time Issued at: 04:05 UTC on 29th Apr Southerly 2 to 4, veering southwesterly 4 to 6, becoming variable 3 or less later.

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 ...

It’s an idea we discussed 12 months ago, to mark the centenary of the first broadcast of the Shipping Forecast on BBC radio. The anniversary seems something of a moveable feast, given the many ...