Carol Ann Duffy

The Shipping Forecast offers listeners a chance to reconnect with Britain's maritime history

How a weather broadcast came to symbolize all it means to British

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You would think an esoteric radio item about sea storms, air pressure and precipitation would not be the most popular thing on radio. But don’t tell that to fans of the BBC’s “Shipping Forecast.”You would think an esoteric radio item about sea storms, air pressure and precipitation would not be the most popular thing on radio. But don’t tell that to fans of the BBC’s “Shipping Forecast.”

Britain’s first female poet laureate

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