Editing Shipping Forecast (section)

==Influences on popular culture==
The Shipping Forecast is immensely popular with the British public; it attracts listeners in the hundreds of thousands daily – far more than actually require it.<ref name=baffle>{{cite web|title=Shipping Forecast's 'baffling' legacy|work=BBC News|date=27 September 2007|author=Kevin Young|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6940597.stm|access-date=16 April 2016}}</ref> In 1995, a plan to move the late night broadcast by 12 minutes triggered angry newspaper editorials and debates in the UK Parliament and was ultimately scrapped.<ref name=gloabal>{{cite web|title=In the UK, nothing interrupts the shipping forecast – not even live sports|url=http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/united-kingdom/130712/britain-radio4-bbc-shipping-forecast|author=Corinne Purtill|work=Global Post|date=12 July 2013 |access-date=26 July 2013}}</ref> Similar outcry greeted the Met Office's decision to rename Finisterre to FitzRoy, but in that case, the decision was carried through.<ref>{{cite book|title= Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour|url= https://archive.org/details/watchingenglishh00foxk|url-access= registration|author=Kate Fox|publisher= Hodder & Stoughton|year=2005|page=[https://archive.org/details/watchingenglishh00foxk/page/10 10]}}</ref> Peter Jefferson, who read the Forecast for 40 years until 2009, says that he received letters from listeners across the UK saying that the 0048 broadcast helped them get to sleep after a long day.<ref name=Jefferson/> The Controller of BBC Radio 4, Mark Damazer, attempted to explain its popularity:
{{blockquote|It scans poetically. It's got a rhythm of its own. It's eccentric, it's unique, it's English. It's slightly mysterious because nobody really knows where these places are. It takes you into a faraway place that you can't really comprehend unless you're one of these people bobbing up and down in the Channel.<ref name=baffle/>}}

[[Zeb Soanes]], a regular Shipping Forecast reader, described it thus:

{{blockquote|To the non-nautical, it is a nightly litany of the sea. It reinforces a sense of being islanders with a proud seafaring past. Whilst the listener is safely tucked-up in their bed, they can imagine small fishing-boats bobbing about at Plymouth or 170ft waves crashing against Rockall.<ref name=longwave>{{cite web|title=The lull of the Shipping Forecast|work=BBC News|date=17 February 2012|author=Alex Hudson|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17065521|access-date=16 April 2016}}</ref>}}

Soanes also wrote the foreword to ''The Shipping Forecast Puzzle Book'' ([[BBC Books]], 2020), in which he explains:<blockquote>The forecast gives the wind direction and force, atmospheric pressure, visibility and the state of the sea. It is a nightly litany with a rhythm and indefinable poetry that have made it popular with millions of people who never have cause to put to sea and have little idea what it actually means; a reminder that whilst you're tucked-up safely under the bedclothes, far out over the waves it's a wilder and more dangerous picture, one that captures the imagination and leads it into uncharted waters whilst you sleep. Dependable, reassuring and never hurried, in these especially uncertain times The Shipping Forecast is a still small voice of calm across the airwaves.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Shipping Forecast Puzzle Book|publisher=BBC Books|year=2020|isbn=9781785945106|location=United Kingdom|pages=7–8}}</ref></blockquote>

Another regular reader of the Forecast, [[Kathy Clugston]], described it as "Like a lullaby, almost".<ref name="longwave" /> [[Jo Ellison]] of ''Financial Times'' wrote that "Over time it has become a beloved cultural icon, a tacit expression of our national identity."<ref>{{Cite news|url= https://www.ft.com/content/88055d50-432c-4f9f-b8c6-2905dffc03c0|title= The pure poetry of the shipping forecast|work=Financial Times|date=2024-01-06}}</ref>

[[The Twentieth Century Society]] Director Catherine Croft commented:
{{blockquote| Initially a utilitarian service for a specific minority, it's been adopted as a much loved emotional comfort blanket by a broader demographic – who never go to sea. It's a poetic reverie and symbol of national caring, whilst at the same time a reminder of our geographical isolation and the uncontrollable power of natural phenomena.<ref>{{cite news |title=Intangible Cultural Heritage: UNESCO status for the Shipping Forecast? |url=https://c20society.org.uk/news/intangible-cultural-heritage-unesco-status-for-the-shipping-forecast |access-date=12 January 2024 |work=The Twentieth Century Society |date=11 January 2024}}</ref>}}

[[BBC Sounds]] took inspiration by the comments from people using the forecast to fall asleep and created a podcast called ''The Sleeping Forecast,'' where samples of the forecast are paired with classical and ambient music.<ref name="x500">{{cite web | last=Cunliffe | first=Rachel | title=How The Shipping Forecast became the nation's favourite lullaby | website=New Statesman | date=2022-11-23 | url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/radio-podcasts/2022/11/the-sleeping-forecast-review-bbc-sounds | access-date=2025-01-19}}</ref>

===Music===
The Shipping Forecast has inspired a number of songs and poems, including the following:
{{unordered list
|"Shipping Song" on [[Lisa Knapp]]'s 2013 album ''Hidden Seam''
|"Mercy" on [[Wire (band)|Wire]]'s 1978 album ''[[Chairs Missing]]'' includes the lyrics:{{blockquote|<poem>Snow storms forecast imminently in areas
Dogger, Viking, Moray, Forth, and Orkney</poem>}}
|"[[This Is a Low]]" on [[Blur (band)|Blur]]'s album ''[[Parklife]]'' includes the lyrics:{{blockquote|<poem>On the Tyne, Forth and Cromarty
There's a low in the high Forties</poem>}}
The song also contains references to Biscay, Dogger, Thames ("Hit traffic on the Dogger bank / Up the Thames to find a taxi rank") and Malin Head, one of the [[List of coastal weather stations of the United Kingdom|coastal stations]].

Blur's early tour film, ''[[Starshaped]]'', also uses extracts from the Shipping Forecast during the opening and closing credits.
|The [[Chumbawamba]] song "The Good Ship Lifestyle" on the album ''[[Tubthumper]]'' mentions Shipping Forecast regions (in the wrong order):
{{blockquote|<poem>
Faeroes, Bailey, Fair Isle, Hebrides
Malin, Rockall, Shannon, Sole
Trafalgar, Finisterre, Irish Sea, Biscay
Humber, Portland, Cromarty, Forth, Tyne
...
Dogger, Fisher, German Bight; Viking, Thames, Dover, Wight  (3x)
Dogger, Fisher, German Bight
... </poem>}}
|[[Radiohead]] used lyrics relating to the Shipping Forecast in their song "[[Kid A|In Limbo]]" to represent a theme of being lost:
{{blockquote|<poem>Lundy, Fastnet, [[Irish Sea]]
I've got a message I can't read</poem>}}
This song appears on the album ''[[Kid A]]'', the vinyl release of which has the names of several of the forecast's sea areas etched into the runoff space.
|[[Dry the River]] song "New Ceremony" on the album ''[[Shallow Bed]]'' includes lyrics:
{{blockquote|<poem>But after we danced to the shipping forecast
the words escaped your mouth...</poem>}}
|The [[The Mekons|Mekons]] song "Shanty" from ''The Edge of the World'' begins with a sample of the shipping forecast, and includes the lyrics:{{blockquote|<poem>Concrete and steel and a flame in the night
Cromarty Dogger and Bight</poem>}}
|In the [[2012 Olympics opening ceremony|opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympic Games in London]], the shipping forecast was played in the opening part of the production with Elgar's ''[[Enigma Variations|Nimrod]]'' to represent Britain's maritime heritage.
|[[The Young Punx]] sampled the shipping forecast as read by BBC presenter [[Alan Smith (radio)|Alan Smith]] for their track "Rockall". The shipping forecast forms the entire lyric for the track, both used in its original form (yet rhyming and scanning) e.g. "Tyne, Dogger, German Bight. Humber, [[Thames]], Dover, Wight" and also with the words re-edited into new orders to form new meanings and puns such as "expected to, Rock All, by midnight tonight".
|Other popular artists who have used [[Sampling (music)|samples]] of the Shipping Forecast include [[Andy White (singer-songwriter)|Andy White]] who added the forecast to the track "The Whole Love Story" to create a very nostalgic, cosy and soporific sound, highly evocative of the British Isles; [[Tears for Fears]], whose track "[[Everybody Wants to Rule the World#B-side: "Pharaohs"|Pharaohs]]" (a play on the name of the sea area "Faeroes") is a setting of the forecast to a mixture of mellow music and sound effects; and [[Thomas Dolby]], who included a shipping forecast read by the [[BBC]]'s John Marsh on the track "Windpower".
|The British DJ [[Rob Overseer]]'s album ''Wreckage'' has a final track entitled "[[Heligoland]]", where the Shipping Forecast surrealistically alternates between reporting the weather and the emotional states of an individual.
|The band [[British Sea Power]] entitled a B-side of their "[[Please Stand Up]]" single "Gale Warnings in Viking North".
|[[Beck]] includes a 27-second sample five minutes into the track "The Horrible Fanfare/Landslide/Exoskeleton" on the album ''[[The Information (Beck album)|The Information]]''.
|The experimental electronic musician [[Robin Storey]], recording under the name [[Rapoon]], sampled the shipping forecast for the track "Falling More Slowly" on his 1997 album ''Easterly 6 or 7'', itself named for the Forecast.
|[[The Prodigy]] sampled a short section of the shipping forecast in their song "Weather Experience" on their album ''[[Experience (Prodigy album)|Experience]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.theprodigy.info/samples/experience.shtml#Weather_Experience|title=Prodigy samples >> Experience era | work=Juge's Prodigy Net | publisher = Jussi Lahtinen | access-date=6 January 2009}}</ref>
|[[Manfred Mann's Earth Band]] extensively used samples of shipping forecasts as a part of the backing track to "Stranded", from their 1980 album, ''Chance''.
|The [[Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull]] album ''[[Stormwatch (album)|Stormwatch]]'' features the shipping forecast between verses of "[[North Sea Oil]]". It is read by [[Francis Wilson (meteorologist)|Francis Wilson]], a TV weatherman who also reads the introduction to "Dun Ringill" on the same album.
|[[Silly Wizard]] includes a snippet of a gale warning from the shipping forecast in the closing instrumental of "The Fishermen's Song", which tells of the loss of a fishing boat in a North Sea storm.
|''Shipping Forecast'' by the composer [[Cecilia McDowall]] was commissioned by Portsmouth Festival Choir and conducted by Andrew Cleary. It was first performed in June 2011.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13773797 | work=BBC News | title=Music inspired by Shipping Forecast | date=15 June 2011}}</ref> The work combines the poetry of Seán Street, [[Psalm 107]], and the words of the shipping forecast itself.
|There is a three-bell [[change ringing]] method named "Shipping Forecast Singles". It was composed by Sam Austin and was rung to a peal in 2004 at St John the Baptist in [[Middleton, Warwickshire|Middleton]], Warwickshire. Other three-bell methods by the same composer are named after various shipping areas.
|[[Justin Sullivan]], lead vocalist and founding member of [[New Model Army (band)| New Model Army]], released a solo album in 2003 called ''Navigating by the Stars''. Featuring a nautical theme, the album samples part of the Shipping Forecast on the track "Ocean Rising".
|In 1966, four English singers calling themselves [[The Master Singers]] released a record of "The Weather Forecast"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAMlem3KGaA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/aAMlem3KGaA| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=Weather Forecast Master Singers Slideshow with subs www keepvid com|date=13 December 2010 |via=YouTube|access-date=18 November 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> which was a typical Shipping Forecast sung in Anglican chant.
|The Creative Commons-licensed artist Cakeflap's song, "The Bakery Is Open",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jamendo.com/album/16995/the-bakery-is-open?language=en | title=The Bakery Is Open on Jamendo}}</ref> contains a mock version of the shipping forecast, with several areas and weathers altered.
|The [[Mull Historical Society]]'s single "The Final Arrears" ends with a twenty-second recording of the Shipping Forecast from "Tuesday 17th October" (presumably 2000).
|The 2018 album ''Between Wind and Water'' by British folk band [[The Longest Johns]] ends with the bonus track "Shipping Forecast" parodying the BBC forecast format. The band is known for covering sea shanties and their music's maritime theme.
|The 2020 Harry Harris EP ''Open Up The Pit'' includes a track, "While The Radio Plays" which features the regions of shipping forecast in its chorus.}}

===Radio===
[[Frank Muir]] and [[Denis Norden]] parodied the Shipping Forecast in a song written for an episode of ''[[Take It From Here]]'':
{{blockquote|<poem>In Ross and Finistère
The outlook is sinisterre
Rockall and Lundy
Will clear up by Monday</poem>}}

''[[Dead Ringers (series)|Dead Ringers]]'' parodied the Shipping Forecast using [[Brian Perkins]] rapping the forecast ("Dogger, Fisher, German Bight – becoming quite cyclonic. Occasional showers making you feel cat-atatatatatata-tonic..."). Many other versions have been used including a "Dale Warning" to warn where [[Dale Winton]] could be found over the coming period, and a spoof in which sailors are warned of ghostly galleons and other nightmarish apparitions.

[[Stephen Fry]], in his 1988 radio programme ''[[Saturday Night Fry]]'', issued the following "Shipping Forecast" in the first episode of the programme:
{{blockquote|<poem>And now, before the news and weather, here is the Shipping Forecast issued by the Meteorological Office at 1400 hours [[Greenwich Mean Time]].
Finisterre, Dogger, Rockall, Bailey: no.
Wednesday, variable, imminent, super.
South Utsire, North Utsire, Sheerness, Foulness, [[Eliot Ness]]:
If you will, often, eminent, 447, 22 yards, touchdown, stupidly.
Malin, Hebrides, Shetland, Jersey, Fair Isle, Turtle-Neck, Tank Top, Courtelle:
Blowy, quite misty, sea sickness. Not many fish around, come home, veering suggestively.
That was the Shipping Forecast for 1700 hours, Wednesday 18 August.</poem>}}

The BBC Radio 4 monologue sketch show ''One'' features a number of Shipping Forecast parodies, written by [[David Quantick]] and [[Daniel Maier]], such as the following, originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday 21 February 2008:
{{blockquote|<poem>And now with the time approaching 5&nbsp;pm,
It's time for the [[mid-life crisis]] forecast...

Forties; restless: three or four.
Marriage: stale; becoming suffocating.
Sportscar, jeans and t-shirt; westerly, five.
Waitress; blonde; 19 or 20.
[[Converse All-Stars]]; haircut; earring; children;
becoming embarrassed.
Tail between legs; atmosphere frosty;
Spare room: five or six.</poem>}}

In an episode of the BBC Radio 4 series ''[[Live on Arrival]]'', [[Steve Punt]] reads the Shopping Forecast, in which the regions are replaced with supermarket names, e.g. "[[Tesco]], [[Fine Fare]], [[Sainsbury's|Sainsbury]]". The sketch ends with the information, "joke mileage decreasing, end of show imminent".

On the broadcast at 0048 on Saturday 19 March 2011, the area forecasts were delivered by [[John Prescott]] to raise awareness of [[Red Nose Day 2011]], a charity event organised by [[Comic Relief]]. The format then reverted to the BBC continuity announcer [[Alice Arnold (broadcaster)|Alice Arnold]] for the reports on coastal areas. On delivering the area forecast for Humber, Prescott (who had represented the parliamentary constituency of [[Kingston upon Hull East (UK Parliament constituency)|Kingston upon Hull East]] for almost 40 years before retiring) slipped deliberately into his distinctive [[East Yorkshire]] accent – "'Umber – without the 'H', as we say it up there".

The comedian [[Marti Caine]] listed the Shipping Forecast as one of her eight records when she made her second appearance on ''[[Desert Island Discs]]'' on 24 March 1991.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/21ad3f47#p0093zbg |title=Castaway : Marti Caine |date=24 September 2011 |work=Desert Island Discs |publisher=BBC }}</ref>

The [[BBC Radio 1]] ''[[That's What He Said (podcast)|That's What He Said]]'' podcast by [[Greg James]] featured the shipping forecast being read out by Grace Hopper. This was done to make light of her inability to pronounce certain words.

On his December 28 2024 [[BBC Radio 6]] show, [[Gilles Peterson]] paid tribute to “100 years of The Shipping Forecast” playing “Seamus Heaney The Shipping Forecast - Poem”.

On 1 January 2025 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a series of programmes under the title "Shipping Forecast Day", to mark the start of a year of<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 - Shipping Forecast - The Shipping Forecast Centenary |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4Xd1HYns0lKBdl27DDGnWpG/the-shipping-forecast-centenary |website=BBC |access-date=4 January 2025}}</ref> celebrations of the centenary of the Shipping Forecast.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hogan |first1=Michael |title=Shipping Forecast Day, Radio 4, review: Gavin and Stacey's Nessa rules the airwaves |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-to-listen-to/shipping-forecast-day-radio-4-review/ |access-date=4 January 2025 |work=The Telegraph |date=1 January 2025}}</ref>

===Film and television===
[[Terence Davies]]' film ''[[Distant Voices, Still Lives]]'', a largely autobiographical account of growing up in [[Liverpool]] during the 1940s and 1950s, opens with a shipping forecast from this period.

In an episode of the BBC sitcom ''[[Keeping Up Appearances]]'', a soon-to-be-sailing [[Hyacinth Bucket]] calls over the telephone for an advance shipping forecast, even though the yacht she and her husband Richard are to visit is moored on the Thames near Oxford. Names mentioned (in scene sequence) are: [[Fisher Bank|Fisher]], [[German Bight]] and [[Cromarty Firth|Cromarty]], [[Dogger Bank|Dogger]] and [[Heligoland Bight|Heligoland]] (also known as [[German Bight]]).

In an episode of the BBC sitcom ''[[Ever Decreasing Circles]]'', Howard and Hilda leave their neighbour Paul's house party early, explaining that they must get back to listen to the Shipping Forecast. Paul asks why, seeing as they have never owned a boat. Howard explains, "Well, it takes us nicely into the news."

Mentioned briefly in the film ''[[Kes (film)|Kes]]''

A recording of part of the forecast is played over the opening and closing credits of [[Rick Stein]]'s 2000 TV series ''Rick Stein's Seafood Lover's Guide''.

In an episode of the Channel 4 television series ''[[Black Books]]'', the character Fran Katzenjammer listens to the shipping forecast because a friend from her college is reading it. She finds his voice arousing.

In the BBC sitcom ''[[As Time Goes By (UK TV series)|As Time Goes By]]'', the character Mrs Bale is obsessed by and constantly mentions The Shipping Forecast much to the befuddlement of the other characters.

Many characters in the 1983 children's cartoon, ''[[The Adventures of Portland Bill]]'' are named after features mentioned in the Shipping Forecast.

In the 2011 movie ''[[Page Eight]]'', the Shipping Forecast plays as the main protagonist Jonnie Worricker drives his car through London late at night.

In the movie ''[[I, Daniel Blake]]'', the titular character's late wife is said to have been a listener of the Shipping Forecast, with Daniel playing "Sailing By" on a cassette. The song is played at the end of the film at Daniel's funeral.

In the 2020 movie ''[[Supernova (2020 film)|Supernova]]'', depicting the caravan holiday of an American-British gay couple (Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth), the Shipping Forecast comes on the car radio, prompting the American to wonder aloud, "How many decades do you have to live in this country for that to make any sense?"

The actress [[Olivia Colman]] has said that listening to the Shipping Forecast through an [[In-ear monitor|earpiece]] helps her keep her emotions in check while filming some of the more emotional scenes on ''[[The Crown (TV series)|The Crown]]'', to accurately portray the cool and collected character of the monarch [[Elizabeth II]].<ref>{{cite news |title=The Crown star Olivia Colman 'listened to Shipping Forecast' to prevent tears in emotional season 3 scenes |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/olivia-colman-the-crown-season-3-queen-elizabeth-netflix-helena-bonham-carter-return-date-trailer-a8655916.html |access-date=28 December 2018 |newspaper=The Independent}}</ref>

===Video games===
In [[Funcom]]'s [[massively multiplayer online role-playing game]] ''[[The Secret World]]'', the shipping forecast plays over the radio in a [[London Underground]] station, adding to the British flavour distinguishing the setting from other worldwide locations featured in the game.

===Literature===
A number of minor characters in [[Jasper Fforde]]'s first novel, ''[[Characters in the Thursday Next series|The Eyre Affair]]'', are named after Sea Areas in the shipping forecast.

[[Charlie Connelly]]'s 2004 book ''Attention All Shipping'' (Little Brown: {{ISBN|0-316-72474-2}}) describes a project to visit every sea area with any land, and to travel by air or sea over the others.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Connelly |first1=Charlie |title='Moderate becoming good': my journey to every place in the shipping forecast |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/may/02/moderate-becoming-good-my-journey-to-every-place-in-the-shipping-forecast |access-date=20 July 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=2 May 2020}}</ref>

In the ''New York Times'' magazine dated 19 February 2023, the letter of recommendation by Grace Linden was an article on  the shipping forecast, in which she stated: "Like the sea itself, the Shipping Forecast is a reminder of the larger, more elemental forces at play, those things that are much more powerful than any of our individual worries or wants."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Linden |first1=Grace |title=A Secret for Falling Asleep So Good It's a British National Treasure |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/magazine/falling-asleep-shipping-forecast.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare |access-date=23 February 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=14 February 2023|url-access=subscription}}<br />{{cite web |last1=Linden |first1=Grace |title=Vastness |url=https://www.openhorizons.org/vastness-mysticism-and-the-weather-channel.html |website=Open Horizons |access-date=23 February 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

''Moderate Becoming Good Later''<!-- Note, no commas in title --> (Summersdale: {{ISBN|978-1800076105}}) is a 2023 book by siblings Toby and Katie Carr, describing Toby's kayaking trip around the shipping areas; Katie completed the book, from Toby's notes, after his death.<ref name="massey">{{cite news |last1=Massey |first1=Jon |title=Wapping: How Toby Carr went from paddling in Shadwell to European seas |url=https://wharf-life.com/interviews/wapping-moderate-becoming-good-later-toby-carr-katie-carr-tower-hamlets-canoe-club/ |access-date=4 June 2023 |work=Wharf Life |date=1 June 2023}}</ref>

In [[Carol Ann Duffy]]'s poem ''Prayer'', the final line is "Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer - Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre."<ref>{{cite web |title="Prayer," by Carol Ann Duffy |url=https://www.saltproject.org/progressive-christian-blog/2023/8/28/prayer-by-carol-ann-duffy |website=SALT Project |access-date=28 December 2024 |date=28 August 2023}}</ref>

In [[Amelia Ellis]]' 2008 novel ''The Fourth Aspect'', the protagonist is overcome by an emotional reaction when by chance listening to the shipping forecast on a road trip from London to the Scottish Highlands, leading her to the realization that "Sometimes we hold on to things or people for reasons that have nothing to do with them at all."<ref>{{cite book |last=Ellis|first=Amelia|author-link=Amelia Ellis|title=The Fourth Aspect|location=United Kingdom|publisher=Newton Pryce Ingram|year=2008|page=253|isbn=9783905965322}}</ref>

===Art===
For his project ''The Shipping Forecast – an Artist's Journey'', which began in 2015, the [[Troon]]-based artist Ian Rawnsley plans to travel by sea through each of the sea areas and create a painting inspired by each, to raise funds for [[Macmillan Cancer Support]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Mark |title=Rain later, good: Artist's fascinating project to paint the shipping forecast |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14193309.Rain_later__good__Artist_s_fascinating_project_to_paint_the_shipping_forecast/ |access-date=8 August 2018 |work=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]] |date=11 January 2016}}<br>- {{cite web |last1=Rawnsley |first1=Ian |title=The Shipping Forecast – an Artist's Journey |url=http://shippingforecast2015.blogspot.com/ |access-date=8 August 2018}}</ref>

=== Bedtime story ===
In March 2017, [[Peter Jefferson (radio)|Peter Jefferson]] recorded a reinvented version of the Shipping Forecast as "a bedtime story for grown-ups".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/29/voice-shipping-forecast-returns-lull-listeners-sleep-not-bbc/|title=Voice of the Shipping Forecast returns to lull listeners to sleep – but not on the BBC|work=The Telegraph|access-date=25 July 2017}}<br>- {{Cite news|url=http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/voice-shipping-forecast-lends-soothing-12840144|title=Meet the man whose soothing tones voice the Shipping Forecast|last=Smurthwaite|first=Tom|date=8 April 2017|work=Get Surrey|access-date=25 July 2017}}</ref>