{"id":61113,"date":"2024-11-15T07:35:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T11:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=61113"},"modified":"2024-11-15T07:35:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T11:35:16","slug":"the-shipping-forecast-a-special-1993-filmed-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/the-shipping-forecast-a-special-1993-filmed-version\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shipping Forecast: A Special 1993 Filmed Version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shipping-forecast-locations.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8952\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shipping-forecast-locations.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shipping-forecast-locations.png 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shipping-forecast-locations-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/shipping-forecast-locations-100x56.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor and good friend, <a href=\"https:\/\/bjleiderman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BJ Leiderman<\/a>, who shares the following video on YouTube&#8211;a special Shipping Forecast tribute:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">On 18 December 1993, as part of the Arena Radio Night, BBC Radio 4 and BBC 2 collaborated on a simultaneous broadcast so the shipping forecast \u2013 read that night by Laurie Macmillan \u2013 could be seen as well as heard. To date, it is the only time that it has been broadcast on television.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K55j0PE-D9s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/K55j0PE-D9s?si=EcQCUXVuAkkVh8qC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view\/listen on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>As a huge fan of The Shipping Forecast, I absolutely love this&#8211;simply chock-full of radio nostalgia. Thank you for sharing!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and good friend, BJ Leiderman, who shares the following video on YouTube&#8211;a special Shipping Forecast tribute: On 18 December 1993, as part of the Arena Radio Night, BBC Radio 4 and BBC 2 collaborated on a simultaneous broadcast so the shipping forecast \u2013 read that night by Laurie Macmillan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[2436,3,305],"tags":[2964,3479,2734],"class_list":["post-61113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longwave","category-news","category-nostalgia","tag-bbc-radio-4-shipping-forecast","tag-bj-leiderman","tag-shipping-forecast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fTH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9808,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/today-choppy-seas-for-the-shipping-forecast\/","url_meta":{"origin":61113,"position":0},"title":"Today: Choppy seas for the Shipping Forecast","author":"Thomas","date":"May 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Since the dawn of time, there is, there was, and there always has been...the Shipping Forecast. 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