Podcast
99% Invisible
It was written by Peter Jefferson, a former BBC Shipping Forecast reader, and details his experience in the role and the unique place the forecast holds in British culture.
Peter's got a new project. Well, that was just last year. I got an email out of the blue.
— Episode: The Shipping Forecast
Episode: The Shipping Forecast
It was written by Peter Jefferson, a former BBC Shipping Forecast reader, and details his experience in the role and the unique place the forecast holds in British culture.
Peter's got a new project. Well, that was just last year. I got an email out of the blue.
The email was from the popular meditation app Calm.
Calm produces what they call sleep stories, meant to be listened to right before bed. And they wanted Peter to read the Shipping Forecast for them.
They just thought it would make a rather soothing bedtime story.
Peter Jefferson's book is called And Now the Shipping Forecast, and Charlie Connolly's book is called Attention All Shipping, A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast.