Shipping Forecast - centenary celebration/articles on Radio 4

[LittleSister]

In case anyone has missed it, the BBC is celebrating the centenary of the Shipping Forecast has a host of programmes on R4 about its history, production and significance.

I believe that this is happening, or at least kicking off, on New Year's Day. Presumably the programmes will also subsequently be available on BBC Sounds.

BBC Radio 4 - Shipping Forecast - The Shipping Forecast Centenary

 

[zoidberg]

'Nessa to read old Shipping Forecast for centenary'​

Gavin and Stacey's Nessa to read old Shipping Forecast

Maybe we could get our very own 'continuity announcer' Frank S. to read out an old Shipping Forecast for us.... perhaps this one:

The BBC Radio Shipping Forecast on 11 August 1979 broadcast at 13:55 that day predicted "south-westerly winds, force four to five increasing to force six to seven for a time."

 

[capnsensible]

Tidy

 

[MoodySabre]

 

[wonkywinch]

I like the shipping forecast heard in Rockfish, Brixham .. Shipping Forecast

 

[RivalRedwing]

All the programs were on BBC Sounds R4 yesterday (31/12), quite interesting although Nessa's bit was quite short

 

[Sandy]

I like the shipping forecast heard in Rockfish, Brixham .. Shipping Forecast

Often repeated in every other Rockfish.

I can report that they were playing it at Brixham yesterday, 31/12/2024, and the fish was up to its usual standard.

 

[Blueboatman]

Back in the day when one relied on long wave radio shipping forecasts , I noted with some unease that the introduction of female presenters of the forecast seemed to diminish the projection of the sound clarity in a creaky old boat @ range at sea..

Heresy perhaps but subjectively it was an an added complication to gettting and writing down the forecast in a gale of wind..
My bad, my bad ears?

 

[mjcoon]

Back in the day when one relied on long wave radio shipping forecasts , I noted with some unease that the introduction of female presenters of the forecast seemed to diminish the projection of the sound clarity in a creaky old boat @ range at sea..

Not on long wave, or in UK, but I recollect a lady forecaster on the radio years ago when on holiday in Croatia. Her pronunciation of "foxtrot" (more like "ferxtrert") was so wonderfully articulated that we kept practising it!