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[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-41030909/radio-4-s-shipping-forecast-reaches-150-years-old ]150 years of the shipping forecast. [/url]
(Wrong flipping forum!)
(Wrong flipping forum!)
I think they delivered it by bike 150 years ago, so not entirely inaccurate 😛
One of those great British institutions
'R4 LW will now be leaving the cricket for....,'
anyone else use to tune in a plot their own synoptic chart from the shipping forecast data?
anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
Yeah, used to hate waking up at 5 am with a pencil and pad next to my bed. I even bought an expensive fancy Roberts radio, with a cassette recorder on a timer so i didnt have to get up 😀
A couple of months ago the whole forecast was the same for every region. Why they still had to go through all the regions, repeating the same info over and over, instead of just stating that all areas are the same, I don't know?
Alan Bennett reading the shipping forecast a few years ago:
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01p2yb9 ]PeterAndDudleyChipInTheSugarBowlMamSaid[/url]
Stephen Fry reading a 'version' for Mark & Lard:
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Good shout, yeah the days on LW Weather Forcasts from the BBC.. even mid Atlantic it became a ritual to break up a slow day on the water..
#IReminisceIReminisce
Great Alan Bennet link there, that's quite lovely.
Great Alan Bennet link there, that's quite lovely.
It is isn't it? 🙂
Public Service Broadcasting (The Band) released a 'tea-towel' showing a map of all the shipping forecast areas of the UK. It really is rather splendid and perfectly compliments my 'Sisters of Mercy' tea-towel and my Joy Division Oven Gloves ... 😉
'R4 LW will now be leaving the cricket for....,'
Anyone else switch from DAB to LW to catch it sometimes?
Anyone? Please don't say I'm alone......!
It hasn't been as good since Charlotte Green left.