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End of era as #BBC switches off #Radio4 #LongWave service
First BBC Long Wave transmissions in the mid-1920s were on 1600m or 187.5 kHz.
A famous BBC programme tied to Long Wave is #ShippingForecast, a weather bulletin for deep-sea fishermen which became cult listening on land and now features on FM and digital, and there’s even a probably-apocryphal tale that nuclear submarine captains would once use its presence or absence to judge whether nuclear war had occurred.
https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/06/29/end-of-era-as-the-bbc-switches-off-radio-4-long-wave-service/5263506 -
End of era as #BBC switches off #Radio4 #LongWave service
First BBC Long Wave transmissions in the mid-1920s were on 1600m or 187.5 kHz.
A famous BBC programme tied to Long Wave is #ShippingForecast, a weather bulletin for deep-sea fishermen which became cult listening on land and now features on FM and digital, and there’s even a probably-apocryphal tale that nuclear submarine captains would once use its presence or absence to judge whether nuclear war had occurred.
https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/06/29/end-of-era-as-the-bbc-switches-off-radio-4-long-wave-service/5263506 -
Vernon Kay makes true feelings clear on 'disappointing' BBC show decision
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I like listening to the shipping forecast. I just don’t like being awake to do so.
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As darkness falls, the general cargo vessel 'Cellus' pictured being accompanied by the Port Of Sunderland pilot as it sets a course out into the stormy waters of the North Sea.
If you are a seafarer, you are likely to pay heed to the daily shipping forecasts giving advance warnings of sea conditions.
Learned recently that this year the Shipping Forecast, as broadcast daily on BBC radio, is celebrating the centenary of the very first transmission.
The daily recitation of sea conditions to be expected in the enigmatically-named sea areas has developed something of a cult following.
The nightly script, which some say is akin to poetry, has its very own musical prelude, namely 'Sailing By', composed by Ronal Binge.
At just after 12.45am on BBC Radio Four, the broadcast delivers a forecast for 31 marine areas, followed by inshore coastal weather forecasts and current reports from coastal weather stations all around the UK.
#england #shippingforecast #sunderland #bbc #coast #photography -
As darkness falls, the general cargo vessel 'Cellus' pictured being accompanied by the Port Of Sunderland pilot as it sets a course out into the stormy waters of the North Sea.
If you are a seafarer, you are likely to pay heed to the daily shipping forecasts giving advance warnings of sea conditions.
Learned recently that this year the Shipping Forecast, as broadcast daily on BBC radio, is celebrating the centenary of the very first transmission.
The daily recitation of sea conditions to be expected in the enigmatically-named sea areas has developed something of a cult following.
The nightly script, which some say is akin to poetry, has its very own musical prelude, namely 'Sailing By', composed by Ronal Binge.
At just after 12.45am on BBC Radio Four, the broadcast delivers a forecast for 31 marine areas, followed by inshore coastal weather forecasts and current reports from coastal weather stations all around the UK.
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The rhythm & calm authority of the #ShippingForecast; for 100 years on the #BBC, it’s guided sailors & soothed listeners across the #BritishIsles. 🌧️🌊
My paintings #AttentionAllShipping & #SailingBy capture a little of that magic, the #poetry of weather, sea & sound.
See my paintings here 💙
👉 https://bit.ly/ShipFore#MaritimeArt #BBC #SeaAreas #Cartography #BritishCulture #UKHeritage #NauticalArt #Painting #Seascape #MetOffice #NationalTreasure #bbcradio4
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The rhythm & calm authority of the #ShippingForecast; for 100 years on the #BBC, it’s guided sailors & soothed listeners across the #BritishIsles. 🌧️🌊
My paintings #AttentionAllShipping & #SailingBy capture a little of that magic, the #poetry of weather, sea & sound.
See my paintings here 💙
👉 https://bit.ly/ShipFore#MaritimeArt #BBC #SeaAreas #Cartography #BritishCulture #UKHeritage #NauticalArt #Painting #Seascape #MetOffice #NationalTreasure #bbcradio4
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The rhythm & calm authority of the #ShippingForecast; for 100 years on the #BBC, it’s guided sailors & soothed listeners across the #BritishIsles. 🌧️🌊
My paintings #AttentionAllShipping & #SailingBy capture a little of that magic, the #poetry of weather, sea & sound.
See my paintings here 💙
👉 https://bit.ly/ShipFore#MaritimeArt #BBC #SeaAreas #Cartography #BritishCulture #UKHeritage #NauticalArt #Painting #Seascape #MetOffice #NationalTreasure #bbcradio4
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The rhythm & calm authority of the #ShippingForecast; for 100 years on the #BBC, it’s guided sailors & soothed listeners across the #BritishIsles. 🌧️🌊
My paintings #AttentionAllShipping & #SailingBy capture a little of that magic, the #poetry of weather, sea & sound.
See my paintings here 💙
👉 https://bit.ly/ShipFore#MaritimeArt #BBC #SeaAreas #Cartography #BritishCulture #UKHeritage #NauticalArt #Painting #Seascape #MetOffice #NationalTreasure #bbcradio4
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The rhythm & calm authority of the #ShippingForecast; for 100 years on the #BBC, it’s guided sailors & soothed listeners across the #BritishIsles. 🌧️🌊
My paintings #AttentionAllShipping & #SailingBy capture a little of that magic, the #poetry of weather, sea & sound.
See my paintings here 💙
👉 https://bit.ly/ShipFore#MaritimeArt #BBC #SeaAreas #Cartography #BritishCulture #UKHeritage #NauticalArt #Painting #Seascape #MetOffice #NationalTreasure #bbcradio4
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Overseer - Heligoland (And one more, because why not?)
https://youtu.be/iU6nkE-g3BM?si=9gQn45jn_ZzLulFr#overseer #music #musicrecs #musicsuggestion #bigbeat #electronic #shippingforecast #weather
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Find out more in our blog post about our tech enabled forecasts and the next chapter of the #ShippingForecast 👉 https://bit.ly/4kg877D 🧵3/3
🐦🔗 https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1941112706343526468
🕐 04/07 13:31 -
Find out more in our blog post about our tech enabled forecasts and the next chapter of the #ShippingForecast 👉 https://bit.ly/4kg877D 🧵3/3
🐦🔗 https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1941112706343526468
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Did you know? 100 years ago today, the @BBC broadcast the #ShippingForecast for the very first time, produced by the Met Office for @MCA_media.
More than just a lifesaver, it’s become a beloved part of Britain’s cultural identity - a thread 🧵1/3
🐦🔗 https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1941112700698042478
🕐 04/07 13:31 -
Did you know? 100 years ago today, the @BBC broadcast the #ShippingForecast for the very first time, produced by the Met Office for @MCA_media.
More than just a lifesaver, it’s become a beloved part of Britain’s cultural identity - a thread 🧵1/3
🐦🔗 https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1941112700698042478
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Keep Longwave – The campaign to maintain our radio heritage https://keeplongwave.co.uk/
#radio #LW #Longwave #radio4longwave #Radio4 #bbcradio4 #bbc #petition #saveradio #shippingforecast #radio4shippingforecast #TheArchers
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Keep Longwave – The campaign to maintain our radio heritage https://keeplongwave.co.uk/
#radio #LW #Longwave #radio4longwave #Radio4 #bbcradio4 #bbc #petition #saveradio #shippingforecast #radio4shippingforecast #TheArchers
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As someone who during two longer stays in the UK listened to the Shipping Forecast every morning for months at a time (by virtue of host family members needing it for their jobs), this is just full of memories and oddity.
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As someone who during two longer stays in the UK listened to the Shipping Forecast every morning for months at a time (by virtue of host family members needing it for their jobs), this is just full of memories and oddity.
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"The Shipping Forecast: A Haven" – a wonderful episode of the "Illuminated" #podcast by @BBCRadio4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002699p
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"The Shipping Forecast: A Haven" – a wonderful episode of the "Illuminated" #podcast by @BBCRadio4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002699p
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BBC Radio 4 is doing the centenary of the #shippingforecast today and it's lovely. "Rockall Malin Hebrides, that's my favorite bit", someone says, and who can argue?
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BBC Radio 4 is doing the centenary of the #shippingforecast today and it's lovely. "Rockall Malin Hebrides, that's my favorite bit", someone says, and who can argue?
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BBC merisää 100 vuotta | BBC Shipping Forecast 100 years
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I’m enjoying BBC R4’s programmes celebrating the centenary of the Shipping Forecast.
I started sailing before GPS and mobile phones. Waking early to listen to the Shipping Forecast was routine. It’s not that many years ago that a morning forecast had me waking my wife, casting off even before coffee, and making a run across Lyme Bay ahead of forecast strong winds.https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4Xd1HYns0lKBdl27DDGnWpG/the-shipping-forecast-centenary
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I’m enjoying BBC R4’s programmes celebrating the centenary of the Shipping Forecast.
I started sailing before GPS and mobile phones. Waking early to listen to the Shipping Forecast was routine. It’s not that many years ago that a morning forecast had me waking my wife, casting off even before coffee, and making a run across Lyme Bay ahead of forecast strong winds.https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4Xd1HYns0lKBdl27DDGnWpG/the-shipping-forecast-centenary
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**There are warnings of gales**
There are warnings of gales
Depending on where you are in relation to the steep white cliffs or the brown dirt hillsides
Depending on the lush green valleys filled with cows and sheep and goats and pigs
Looking out across the wheat fields in the late summer filled with the sway of the long stemmed grasses wishing they were oceans free of human intent for their impending death
Somewhere out in the world
There are warnings of gales
Inner turmoils or extra terrestrial battles
Or arguments in the corner shop over who could have the last packet of plain chocolate digestives
It is all relevant. Everything has its own equivalency. Each strike of potential catastrophe is equivalent to the next.
I recall the storm of 1987, which I slept through like a soft baby in a warm blanket. My mother called the following morning and I had no idea what she was talking about. The gales had swirled around me and might have caused total destruction, yet, I was safe in my swaddling clothes of care and love and a good bedsitter in Earls Court.
But, be aware of warnings of gales. In the end they will get us all.A poem in celebration of the Shipping forecast. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qfvv)
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The Shipping Forecast Day on New Year’s Day 2025
https://swling.com/blog/2024/12/the-shipping-forecast-day-on-new-years-day-2025/
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The Shipping Forecast Day on New Year’s Day 2025
https://swling.com/blog/2024/12/the-shipping-forecast-day-on-new-years-day-2025/
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The Shipping Forecast is one of my fave things in the world, so I'm very much looking forward to this - especially Eddie Grundy's 😊
Eddie Grundy (Trevor Harrison), Dame Ellen MacArthur, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Stephen Fry, Adrian Dunbar, Paul Sinha, Imtiaz Dharker, Ian McMillan, Val McDermid and Damon Albarn.
"Nessa to read old Shipping Forecast for centenary"
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The Shipping Forecast is one of my fave things in the world, so I'm very much looking forward to this - especially Eddie Grundy's 😊
Eddie Grundy (Trevor Harrison), Dame Ellen MacArthur, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Stephen Fry, Adrian Dunbar, Paul Sinha, Imtiaz Dharker, Ian McMillan, Val McDermid and Damon Albarn.
"Nessa to read old Shipping Forecast for centenary"
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Broadcasting
The BBC's radio Shipping Forecast celebrates it's 100th year in 2025. As a commemoration on New Years' Day, BBC Radio 4 is transmitting programmes themed on the Shipping Forecast , from the serious to the sublime.
One example (which may or may not be included) can be heard here. It includes the line "COW in sea area Shannon, moving eastwards. Sorry, that should be LOW."
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Broadcasting
The BBC's radio Shipping Forecast celebrates it's 100th year in 2025. As a commemoration on New Years' Day, BBC Radio 4 is transmitting programmes themed on the Shipping Forecast , from the serious to the sublime.
One example (which may or may not be included) can be heard here. It includes the line "COW in sea area Shannon, moving eastwards. Sorry, that should be LOW."
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There is something quintessential about the Shipping Forecast. It's very British. And this is despite the fact the Seewetterdienst Hamburg also issues a Shipping Forecast [which I get by email]...
I listened to it when I was in Toronto in 2022. The time difference meant being able to hear the 00:48 GMT/BST edition when it was still light, which was exceptionally strange. But it reminded me of home, island living... despite being a fair distance from the coast #ShippingForecast
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/dec/27/100-years-of-the-shipping-forecast
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What a morning to listen to the Shipping Forecast 😬
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What a morning to listen to the Shipping Forecast 😬
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Ich habe das früher als Kind fasziniert im Radio gehört... Gibt's immer noch, die (?) legendäre Shipping Forecast.
Radio, tja, wie erkläre ich euch das? Ach, googelt es doch.
#ShippingForecast #BBC #Segeln
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Ich habe das früher als Kind fasziniert im Radio gehört... Gibt's immer noch, die (?) legendäre Shipping Forecast.
Radio, tja, wie erkläre ich euch das? Ach, googelt es doch.
#ShippingForecast #BBC #Segeln
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The Shipping Forecast: A Special 1993 Filmed Version
https://swling.com/blog/2024/11/the-shipping-forecast-a-special-1993-filmed-version/
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The Shipping Forecast: A Special 1993 Filmed Version
https://swling.com/blog/2024/11/the-shipping-forecast-a-special-1993-filmed-version/
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"My son recently purchased your Shipping Forecast poster for his dad's birthday. We got it back from the picture framer last night, and to say my husband was thrilled would be a huge understatement! It is wonderful. Thank you" says Maureen.
Do you, or anyone you know, love the #ShippingForecast?
Posters, jigsaw puzzles, tea towels, coasters & cards of my award-winning #painting are here: https://bit.ly/JTshipforecast
#theshippingforecast #attentionallshipping #xmasgiftsideas #xmasgifts
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"My son recently purchased your Shipping Forecast poster for his dad's birthday. We got it back from the picture framer last night, and to say my husband was thrilled would be a huge understatement! It is wonderful. Thank you" says Maureen.
Do you, or anyone you know, love the #ShippingForecast?
Posters, jigsaw puzzles, tea towels, coasters & cards of my award-winning #painting are here: https://bit.ly/JTshipforecast
#theshippingforecast #attentionallshipping #xmasgiftsideas #xmasgifts
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"Rockall, Malin, Hebrides. Southwest gale 8 to storm 10, veering west, severe gale 9 to violent storm 11. Rain, then squally showers. Poor, becoming moderate."
If you can decode the cryptic format of the BBC's shipping forecast you will be pleased to know that we now return shipping sea areas via our geocoding API 🌊🌊🛳️🌊
Details on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/and-now-the-shipping-forecast
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"Rockall, Malin, Hebrides. Southwest gale 8 to storm 10, veering west, severe gale 9 to violent storm 11. Rain, then squally showers. Poor, becoming moderate."
If you can decode the cryptic format of the BBC's shipping forecast you will be pleased to know that we now return shipping sea areas via our geocoding API 🌊🌊🛳️🌊
Details on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/and-now-the-shipping-forecast
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Thanks, BBC Sounds, but I don't think I need you to tell me that there's a new episode of the Shipping Forecast three times a day.
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When I wake up in the middle of the night, one trick I use to get back to sleep is to listen to the latest Shipping Forecast. The rhythm and cadence, the relaxed delivery and mentally picturing what the wind in each region is doing help me to drift back to sleep.
Except it doesn't work when the forecast is FUCKING TERRIFYING. I've never heard it go up to hurricane force before 😱
