{"id":33310,"date":"2018-07-30T07:50:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T11:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=33310"},"modified":"2018-07-30T07:50:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T11:50:46","slug":"the-shipping-forecast-featured-on-99-invisible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/the-shipping-forecast-featured-on-99-invisible\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shipping Forecast featured on 99% Invisible"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Eric McFadden (WD8RIF), who notes that one of my favorite podcasts, 99% Invisible<\/a>, has featured The Shipping Forecast<\/em> in their latest episode:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/media.blubrry.com\/99percentinvisible\/dovetail.prxu.org\/96\/474ddc6a-89d7-46d3-83a4-8f153c94e3a3\/316_The_Shipping_Forecast_pt01.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Four times every day, on radios all across the British Isles, a BBC announcer begins reading from a seemingly indecipherable script. \u201cAnd now the Shipping Forecast issued by the Met Office on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency,\u201d says the voice over the wire. \u201cViking, North Utsire; southwesterly five to seven; occasionally gale eight; rain or showers; moderate or good, occasionally poor.\u201d Cryptic and mesmerizing, this is the UK\u2019s nautical weather report.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Shipping Forecast<\/a>\u00a0is \u201cpart of the culture here,\u201d muses\u00a0Charlie Connolly, author of\u00a0Attention All Shipping: A Journey \u2018Round the Shipping Forecast.<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a much loved institution. People regard it as poetry.\u201d Connolly grew up listening to the forecast. Even now, as an adult, he sets his alarm so he can tune into the early morning forecast.<\/p>\n

The story of this radio program starts (well before the BBC itself) in the 1850s with a man named Admiral Robert FitzRoy. He was the captain of the\u00a0Beagle<\/a>, the ship that brought Charles Darwin to the Galapagos.<\/p>\n

FitzRoy had a long, sometimes controversial career, but later in his life he became fascinated with the study of weather prediction.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Continue reading and listen to this episode at 99PI.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

As many of you know, I’m a big fan of The Shipping Forecast<\/em> and have featured it in past posts<\/a>. Thanks for the tip, Eric!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Eric McFadden (WD8RIF), who notes that one of my favorite podcasts, 99% Invisible, has featured The Shipping Forecast in their latest episode: https:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/media.blubrry.com\/99percentinvisible\/dovetail.prxu.org\/96\/474ddc6a-89d7-46d3-83a4-8f153c94e3a3\/316_The_Shipping_Forecast_pt01.mp3 Four times every day, on radios all across the British Isles, a BBC announcer begins reading from a seemingly indecipherable script. \u201cAnd now the Shipping Forecast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56],"tags":[2435,2887,2734],"class_list":["post-33310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","tag-99-invisible","tag-eric-mcfadden","tag-shipping-forecast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8Fg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29909,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/atlas-obscura-this-weather-report-has-been-making-waves-for-150-years\/","url_meta":{"origin":33310,"position":0},"title":"Atlas Obscura: “This weather report has been making waves for 150 years.”","author":"Thomas","date":"December 31, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Eric McFadden (WD8RIF), who notes that the excellent website, Atlas Obscura, recently featured The Shipping Forecast: Why a Maritime Forecast Is So Beloved in the United Kingdom For the penultimate song on their 1994 album Parklife, Blur chose the swirling, meditative epic, \u201cThis Is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "AM"","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/shipping-forecast-ship.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/shipping-forecast-ship.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/shipping-forecast-ship.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/shipping-forecast-ship.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":27427,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/space-weather-woman-check-out-dr-tamitha-skovs-forecasts\/","url_meta":{"origin":33310,"position":1},"title":"Space Weather Woman: Check out Dr. Tamitha Skov’s forecasts","author":"Thomas","date":"August 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Eric McFadden (WD8RIF), who recently shared one of Tamitha Skov's space weather forecast videos. 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