5 Hours of The Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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Have you ever thought "I wish I had more Shipping Forecast!"?
Problem solved. Here it is.
5 Hours of the night time UK BBC Radio 4 Shipping Forecast.
This might be useful to fall asleep to (bedtime mix) or you may wish to learn the locations of the names announced in the forecast.
The Shipping Forecast turned 150 years old last week.
www.theguardia...
The recording contains the BBC continuity announcers:
Jim Lee
Neil Nunes
Alan Smith
Tom Sandars
Luke Tuddenham
Kathy Clugston
Mairead Devlin
Viji Alles
And given that someone has just copy and pasted this video on an ASMR Channel.. I'm going to put in that keyword here :) "ASMR".
I've set only top and tail adverts - there should be no adverts in the middle once it has started. UA-cam have turned on middle adverts without my permission once and I didn't notice for a month - if you are shown adverts in the middle of the video please leave a comment so I can fix it again.
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Area(s), Wind Direction, Wind Speed according to Beaufort scale, weather, visibility
Very helpful, thanks.. Pinned :D
How about the second set of forecasts - one that contains "x miles, one thousand and ..."?
barometric pressure maybe?
That last number is barometric pressure.
What is "rising more slowly" though, the barometric pressure?
"good, occasionally poor at first" should be my motto
that gets a lol
Zenymn. That sounds like you just need to practice, at arriving second.!.!.!.!.
Faaaaanks
*Epitaph
HAHAHAHAHA! thank you.
God, the internet is awesome! 🥳
Listening to this at 2:13am because I can’t sleep. This makes me feel like when I was a kid and couldn’t sleep… and would just surf up and down my radio dial until I found something weird or interesting to listen to. This is exactly something I would have listened to… every night that I could tune it in.
Enjoy :)
Only thing that would make it better would be AM radio static due to lightning. 📻 ⛈️
More reliable than Radio Caroline!
I only ever thought I did this. It's quite comforting knowing other kids did the same 😂
@@halcyondaystunes
Radio was one of my best friends as a kid.
I feel connected over the radio waves with other people. Because I know other people are listening. Even if it’s just one other person… there’s still a connection.
Curled up in bed with my ear to our old Hitachi radio turned low. R4 LW and listening to 'The Hobbit' - book at bedtime and then the headlines followed by the shipping forecast. Rain and wind howling against the window but here I am nice and cosy. All those places incanted like a spell around the coast of our island with gales and storms but I am nice and warm and sleepy. Radio off and time to go to sleep thinking of the sea waves crashing around us and the poor souls having to endure the storm..
+Alistair
It's a wonderful feeling. Like your bed is a life raft. No harm can befall you, no matter how the storm growls and scrapes at the window to get at you.
In fact, I have two decent quality speakers in my bedroom, and a dedicated MP3-player hooked up to them. The player is always connected to the charger, so battery is not an issue. It has several 7+ hour recordings of storms and rain on it, which I use to fall asleep to some nights. I'm playing it right now. My bed is now a life raft again, just like when I was a wee boy.
That's EXACTLY it, Alistair!!
Yes, you nailed it. 🙂
This is beautiful
A wonderful description! It's a very British thing and your lovely evocation is so ... well evocative.
Before ASMR videos existed on youtube, even before youtube, I would stay up and tune in to this on my FM radio on my phone to relax to 😂
@Smattless based
@Smattless , summed up perfectly.
Smattless not all ASMR videos are like that, sometimes you get Nordic men talking about maps of Stockholm
Smattless The only broken loser on here is you mate.
@@benmcdonnell85 , Very bland lazy attempt to get him. Unfortunately, that dudes right. There's a shit load of that particular ASMR about and it is pathetic.
I think the Shipping Forecast kink in the UK landlubbers is to do with its time of broadcast (0048) and that it almost poetically and rhythmically describes far away places. It's our national lullaby. It's certainly one of our more endearing assets.
American here. First listened to the Shipping Forecast on a meditation app I used to use. Happy to find it again tonight. ☺️
If you enjoy this, you'll love the Tears for Fears song "Pharaohs." It is a very calming instrumental composition built around the reading of a shipping forecast. It was the B-side to the single "Everybody Wants to Rule the World."
Also at the end of Thomas Dolby’s “Windpower” (1982)! Liner notes credit John Marsh.
@@sharebrainedI came here to say exactly the same thing. As an American, it’s nice to finally hear a clear, uncut version.
I am happy that someone else knows of that song and took the time to post a message about it. Also that I didn't have to scroll forever to find it. Pharoahs is one of my favorite tracks from "Saturnine, Martial, and Lunatic".
Why is this so mesmerizing? I can't stop listening.
Time was when the BBC Home Service, which became Radio 4 was, along with The Third Programme [classical music and high-end literature], all you could get and it was on Long Wave. So almost everyone with a radio heard the Shipping Forecast every day.
Being able to interpret the Shipping Forecast was a module in the 'Yachtmaster Offshore' sailing ticket. In the exam, one was given the area chart as in the article. The examiner then hit 'Play' on a cassette deck and a complete shipping forecast was read [but excluding the inshore forecasts] . One filled in the chart, area by area, according to the info. At the end one should be able to see a weather pattern for the entire area covered by the chart, with the centre of the inevitable depression, the isobars circling around it, with the windspeeds associated with every isobar ....
At the end, when we'd handed in out charts to the examiner we all discussed what we'd come up with. "I got a dart board!" "So did I!" "I've failed! My chart was insane!" "No you haven't, Charlie. You passed. And all your dartboards are right. That was the forecast for the 1979 Fastnet Race, with the storm that killed 19 people and sank most of the fleet!" The Fastnet Race is a race from Plymouth, Devon, England around The Fastnet Rock off the coast of southern Ireland [and gives its name to that shipping area] and back to Plymouth. The storm has gone into meteo and sailing legend.
We may not all have the pleasure of being English, however, mariners everywhere exist in solidarity at the mercy of god and the seas, and we can all appreciate the comfortable familiarity of services like the shipping forecast.
This was my ‘good night’ for many of my teenage years, gently lulling me to sleep & improving my geographic knowledge at the same time! I recall listening to it on the night of the hurricane that hit southern UK in the 80’s - it was clear that something major was on the way!!
1.4K likes, rising more slowly.
:) ehehe...
Rising good, occasionally moderate
bjbeamish I think you mean “one four double-oh” likes
The guy at 2:07:15 has an amazing voice. I hope he does audiobooks, because DAMN!
write to him mate
That's David Miles, also a former BBC tv continuity announcer
I love a good solid 5 hours of shipping forecasts. Can't beat it
I grew up listening to this on Radio 4, started in around 1977, I think, some things never change, which is a good thing.
Everyone in this thread has one thing in common. We all somehow triggered the youtube algorithm to recommend this to us. Very bizarre.
Speak for yourself, I searched for it :)
@@spikie852 I was brought here by The Dull Men's Club.
Yet strangely satisfying
I came here from something about Carthusian monks and a review of an electric guitar amp.
I discovered ASMR with Bob Ross and the BBC on NPR overnights, as a kid. I had no idea why, but I loved the calm, clear audio and it’d knock me out in like 20 minutes. Now the circle is complete
Now the Quahog weather report.
IT'S GON' RAIN!
Rob Vonk SPACE WEATHER!
Thanks Ollie
never imagined i'd be addicted to a shipping forecast
Fair, good.
I love this! It makes me feel good but occasionally poor!
I used to play the shipping forecast to a foreign language student friend of mine as a comprehension exercise. A few beers helped
i listen to this every night its the best ever!
Thank you for this. I first heard the shipping forecast one early morning while jet lagged in UK - it was mesmerizing and relaxing then, and still is now. Superb upload. Thank you!
I listened to this every day I could, years ago in the late Sixties, early Seventies. Very soothing.
I wonder if other countries have anything similar. Or is it just us British and our obsessive weather thing which has created something akin to poetry.
Dad used to have this on the radio when we went on holiday. I still have no idea what it all means, but he was fascinated by it.
I found this occasionally moderate
Wow, I’ve been looking for something like this for awhile. Just talking you can hear without having to listen. I thought maybe I could find a numbers station but this is perfect. I’m glad I found it.
Ok, it's 2 years old, but THANK YOU!!!
I love and miss the shipping report, it's just very calming for me, especially helpful for times of anxiety attacks. I can always pull up the current days easily, but to have this saved, this nice long beauty is a great tool to have in my back pocket.
THANK YOU ♥️
Thank you UA-cam Recommendations, Very cool!
Aberdeen South West 2 Lerwick South 1 - not a bad score by all accounts as was Wick Automatic South West 1 Lucas West by North 2 - late penalty by Fitzroy
As a PROUD American i can say i understand completely
Course im a port captain
Five minutes in and I'm still waiting for the Rick Stein cooking show to start. That little dog chalky is so cute!
I think UA-cams recommendation are heading south moderate to poor
Wonder if this is what he wanted to be when he grew up. Hard to believe. Hes probably really happy
Nostalgia. Reminds me of eating supper with my parents when I was younger.
still rocks in 2023 ! 🤟🏼 0:50 trust me it gets WAY GNARLIER !
1:03:30 “I hope you’re enjoying your summer. It is 43 in Spain, I’d much rather have the drizzle” 😂
Me: I wanna listen to some music
UA-cam Algorithm: Here about 5 hours of British Ship Forecast.
One of the things I miss living in the USA. As British as fish and chips, mushy peas and a mug of tea! Thank you for the upload.
Shannon, rating her tinder dates in her diary entry: "Shannon , westerly 3 or 4 backing south-easterly 5 to 7, perhaps Gale 8, later in South. Showers, then rain later. Good, occasionally poor later."
I remember my sister used to like listening to this on the BBC World Service. That was back in the 1980s I think. The chap who read it then had the most amazing calming voice. I miss him.
After decades of listening to test match special on radio 4 longwave this brings back memories.
I love this as a concept, but the reality is uncomfortably nostalgic.
Why "uncomfortably"?
Point to where they touched you.
sometimes it's just overwhelming to be reminded of experiences you'll never be able to live through again.
since "nostalgia" literally means "the pain of a return home", it's all about that uncomfortable feeling of longing, homesickness, or just wanting to go back to a time in your life you remember fondly.
Is it that you've never heard of this service before watching the video, but it still feels like something you've watched even briefly for whatever reason? That's what it feels like for me.
@@CelestiaLily that's the one. I've always heard the shipping forecast, but there was a time in my life where I worked this particular job and so would always catch it when I got home and started drinking a cup of tea and settling down. Reminds me of my life then, the friends, my girlfriend, my family, etc. Just the circumstances which, as you said, cannot be returned to (even though I wouldn't particularly want to be back in that situation).
This brings back memories of watching the British series ‘As Times Go By’ and the head of household who would be adamant about taking time to listening to the Shipping Forcast😅
With Judi Dench? When she was on Desert Island Discs, she chose the shipping forecast as one of her tracks!
Several decades ago that great BBC newsreader of the War years and after, Frank Phillips (a Devon man), having once visited some of the people for whom the Shipping Forecast is essential, and feeling a personal contact, always used to end by saying: 'Goodnight, gentlemen - and good sailing'.
Fran would love this....Shipping!!!!
Lisa C black books 😂
@@projeckt1948 hahahaha yes!!! 🤣
You look Fran-tastic
UA-cam recommendations are good, occasionally strange
I was just going to listen to a bit of it - now I cant turn it off ! Much easier than staying awake till nearly 1am !
Ah this helps me get to sleep at night. Would recommend this podcast.
When all life on earth has become extinct, this will still be heard from under the rubble.
Omg omg omg omg omg omg omg waiting my life for this
Thanks for uploading this! I downloaded it so next time my radio cuts out at sea I'll still know the weather.
Be honest, you didn’t search for this
I've searched for the forecast many times, but for some reason UA-cam has refused to deliver this one. -_- This is peak UA-cam.
I most definitely have been searching for this for a great many years. (and if you believe that, I have a really good second hand car for sale. The water that builds up in the spare wheel well is complimentary extra £2,100 ono;)
I absolutely did lmao
speak for yourself
Tis honest Tis true squire Fitzroy is peak
So relaxing to snuggle down in bed to listern to , although one wonders in this day of instant internet weather forecasting how long before it is deemed no longer necessary.
I finally get to hear the actual shipping forecast!! Thanks😊
I worked in Valentia Weather Station in 1980-81. Our data was part of the "reports from coastal stations" section of the Shipping Forecast. Then I went to university and was a lecturer for more than 30 years. So in my own small way, I spent my entire career putting people to sleep.
I would fall asleep reading this.
I have arrived in Heaven on this blessed Earth!
After many nights of my life having drifted through these enchanted waters, like flotsam on the tides of time….
I keep waiting for “And now, for something completely different.”
I love the shipping forecast!
It loves you too.
Thank you, Ms. Bale!
I liked the part best where he talked about the weather...
This will get me off to sleep tonight!! 👍🏻
I love this. It is so nostalgic.
UA-cam: 5 Hours of Shipping Forecast
500k people: INTERESTING
When quarantine has you listening to the entire thing
I used to love listening to this!
Now you can love listening to it again any time you want :>
Happy 100th birthday to the BBC Shipping Forecast, first broadcast on 1st January 1924!
Yea! I wondered why there was a slight increase in traffic the last 24 hours.. googled.. and found out :)
When Charlotte Green read it made my day go from moderate to good.
“Fisher”? “German Bight”! Stand up Casper
Listening at slow speed to the lady at 3:20 is a hoot. Like a drunk girlfriend giving weather/boating data 😂
ehehe, I'd not thought of playing it back at lower speed than normal!
I love that there are areas of open ocean with particular names. Do they have signage out there, maybe a buoy, saying something like, “Now Entering Rockall: incorporated 1895, population 0, elevation 0“ ?
The RYA Yachtmaster course in the 1970's taught us how to construct a weather map from the shipping forecast.
I find it mind-boggling that this video have been viewed more than a million times.
Refresh it a few more times for good measure :)
It’s 2:45 am and I can’t fall asleep. Time for the British shipping forecast which always works. Night night.
I searched for this.
it searched for you
@@freename it searched for us.
I've got an extreme hankering for some Shipping Forecast!
Luckily you've found it!!
This is gold.
This is better than white noise! Thank you.
The fact that I can click a button and instantly summon 5 hours of the shipping forecast at will is a vindication of the entire twentieth century.
If you get bored of this one or learn it off by heart, there's another 5 hours (I think I link to it in the description) :)
@@freename I'm usually asleep within the first thirty seconds
I love that.
@icannotgetafreename I appreciate this upload because I'm in the US and have been watching UK television for 30 yrs. Black Books, The Vicor of Dibley, Coupling, Father Ted, etc, and have heard the shipping forecast mentioned many times without having the chance to hear the actual broadcast. Thank you. It's amazing.
I know how you feel!
How can you sleep to this? I'm on the edge of my seat!! What's gonna happen next in Humber?!
I think it's going to be moderate or good, increasing 6 or 7, good later.
Hull will end up underwater and Barton will become an island 😂
😂
Gotta be honest, this comment made me chuckle.
Forget the Bodyguard, this is the best shit the BBC has produced!
I love how almost every caster says good night at the end of their casts like they know that they're basically reading bedtime stories to sleepy sailors
They know exactly what it's used for, not just sailors. Many people sleep to this. And they readily acknowledge it
@@nondescripthandle212 !!
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Not sleepy! They have Meteo info from many sources but rhw Shipping Forecast still has value. If you are in a sea area where the pressure, the main engine of Meteo activity, is 'falling rapidly' the last thing you are thinking about is sleep. You and your shipmates will prepare the vessel for a beating.
Or deeply scared people who don't know if they will see tomorrow. Like us of day. "rising" means so much.
Nobody:
UA-cam Recommendations: 5 HOURS OF BRITISH SHIPPING FORECASTS
Edit: I know this was very unoriginal, I am a changed man now
*ahem.
I watched a sailing video from Christian Williams earlier.
Yet it knows your soul.
Thats what happened to me
I watched a video about one of the speakers a couple of months ago, so I guess that's a bit more of a direct connection... except it wasn't a video, but a podcast on a different website. Google really creeps me out sometimes.
and Irish
You: Good, Occasionally Poor
The guy she told you not to worry about: Good, Occasionally moderate
Just adding a comment so it doesn't look awkward, given the likes.
Wow, that is a lot of likes!
@@freename You're so gassed, lmao.
Thank you for this I needed a laugh
The status of his erection: 1,013, rising more slowly. 😉
Mr stark, I don’t feel so good, but occasionally moderate
I want to die.
Too soon
You guys hyped for end, occasionally beginninggame
IM CRYING NOT BECAUSE IM SAD THIS IS JUST FUNNY
at first
I paused this when I went to the bathroom so I wouldn't miss anything.
LMAO
@@larapalma3744 Yeah, that's from the past. Like, What year is this?
As you should.
@@ArtesianFalma IDK
“How’s life?”
“Good, occasionally moderate”
Good, becoming moderately poor later.
I read your comment at exactly the same time as the forecaster said it. Serendipity
"Poor, falling rapidly"
"Losing its identity."
Rising more, slowly.
It’s a little known fact, that, the BBC ‘s shipping, weather service, uses 99% of the U.K.s total annual output, of domestically assembled commas, each year
You missed a comma
Which is quite fitting considering most listeners are driven to a coma
Comma-gain?
This, right here, in my honest, occasionally rising opinion, slowly or, maybe, more slowly, as you like it, is an exceptionally, if not overlooked, at least underrated, I would say, comment, wouldn't you?
@@ezekielbrockmann114 Beautiful comment
My friends: Hey you wanna go out tonight?
Me: *I need to find out what happens next in Biscay*
An invasion *[gathering the Fleet Britishly]*
@@deltoroperdedor3166 That was in Wight, though. Unless we're talking 100 Years', and not WW2.
@@MaxwellTornado no, we're talking about what must be done
@@deltoroperdedor3166 I don't understand.
@@MaxwellTornado France is an aberration of history that must be corrected
Just discovered this!!! I was feeling so crap....but now I feel good, occasionally moderate, falling, loosing my identity backing south to south westerly, occasionally very good. ✌🏽
😂😂😂😂😂 Bravo David wilder that's made my evening👌
*losing ...loosing means your may need to tighten your belt, or your trousers might fall, showers, good, occasionally moderate later.
Its all part of being British! I listen every morning at 05.20. Don't ask me why, I'm driving a bloody truck nowhere near the sea!!!
Sid Scrote densal
That is so funny.
At least if you run off a cliff, you will know what you're getting into.
Wtf it's currently 5:16am here in the UK (still can't sleep) and I just read this comment.
@@noooddle not the sea if he's no where near it
Made redundant, now losing my home, incredibly stressed, anxious and unable to sleep. This was in my recommendations . I grew up listening to radio 4, I'd stay the night at my big sister's little flat she'd always have radio 4 all day and night . I'd snuggle down in bed all cosy pretending I was in a little boat sailing across the sea, Makes me feel very nostagic and safe . Thank you very much for the upload it's helping me sleep 💖✌💕
Sorry to hear how things are for you but glad this helps. It's a strange time right now and hopefully things can only get better from here onward.
@@freename Yes, thank you for your kindness. So many people are in the same situation. It must get better :)
@@liscatcat8756 I hope things have improved for you!
You aren't 'redundant'. You're exceptional. Hold fast. Fair winds and smooth seas ahead, outlook outstanding.
oh my Gosh, how are you now? im seeing this 2 years after you posted, are you ok?
I want this played at my funeral.
Well, get buried at sea and you just might.
I lost
Your funeral is going to be 5 hours long? It's a good way to go out. The doors are all locked, no one is allowed to leave until they have listened to all 5 hours of the Shipping Forecast!
@@DeadlyNightShade60 It will be good time to greive
And everyone has to stand .
I think the soothing feeling people get from this might be a remnant of our past.
There is something soothing about people talking around you as you fall asleep. It's reassuring. The home is guarded. The fire is maintained. Predators are kept away. You are safe.
Totally agree :)
Exactly this. 👍
Smaakjeks K The home is guarded. The fire is maintained. Predators are kept away. The shipping is being forecast. You are safe.
When I was in the Marine Corps I always slept the best when in the field, surrounded by others, knowing someone was on watch and that they would wake me up when it was my turn. Always the deepest and easiest sleeps
Those days are gone sadly :(
Parent: "How are you today son?"
Son: "Good, occasionally moderate.
That's going to be the title of my autobiography
as a greek, my uncle used to sail with freight ships around the globe and he would listen to shipping information all the time and would take notes. even today, retired, residing in greece, he listens to the shipping information without writing anywhere. i asked him why do you still listen to it? memories, he answers...
…and reminisces on the old times.
Beautiful x
your unc was on stinkpots that have motor driven propellers, he didn't sail. not nearly enough respect for the beautiful square rigger sailing ship beasts of yesteryear.
πολυ καλά
I'm not got showers need storms
Imagine listening to this whilst on a boat in the North Sea or North Atlantic, a little bunk bed, tucked up, rain and spray battering the porthole windows. A small hurricane lamp above you swinging casting shadows about the cabin.
Sounds great to me
mel grant not in winter when they waves reach 24 meters the ship is getting air and you can’t have a shower without clinging on for dear life 🤣
JohnDa Artist .....you’ve obviously never been on a boat in the North Sea
Yeah i bed you'd take some spray to your porthole, wouldnt ya sailor? Hahahahahaha
I worked on seine netters, we didn't really get to go to bed for the 2-3 weeks we were out there.
I’ve had the experience of laying in my nice warm bed listening to the Shipping Forecast thinking ‘thank God I’m not out there tonight!’.......only for my Lifeboat pager to go off 5 minutes later and then be heading 22 miles out into the very storm I’d been smugly thankful for avoiding!
Joel Whitaker bless you
Didn’t expect that comment. Very cool. Bless you and others who do life saving work like that.
Thank you for your kindness you are a hero 💖✌
Thanks for being you 🙏godbless lifeguards
Chapeau, sailor. I once read a comment by some Wall St big shot that "If you really want to see what the Brits can do when they put their mind to it, check out The Royal Lifeboat Institution"
i like to think that when the world ends, the TV will go, the Internet will be lost, but there will be someone on the radio waves doing the shipping forecast. its the epitome of consistency. no matter what, the shipping forecast happens, and in exactly the same way as it always has.
Even scarier - long after we are gone, some alien species discovers THAT as all that’s left of US