"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Actually, BBC is on our local NPR news station every day.

They're great till they get to the worldwide cricket scores...

You'd love the shipping forecast on Radio 4.

"Shipping forecast"?

What's that, a weather forecast for the English Channel? The North
Atlantic?

Actually:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/shipping.shtml

You have it in text format, but for maximum effect, click on the
bit which says: "Click to listen to the shipping forecast".

The one at 00:48 is followed by the forecast for inshore waters:
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/datafiles/inshore.html

All together it goes on from 00:48 until 01:00. 12 minutes of weird
names and numbers. You could always click on "Listen Live" at 00:48
British Summer Time (23:48 UTC). From typing this, this is in just under
an hour. Can't listen to Real Audio stuff on my work connection (behind
a firewall) so can't tell you if the forecast after 01:00 on the web also
includes the inshore waters.

Info on interpreting the shipping forecast:
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/leisure...ing/index.html

Shipping forecast areas are he
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/leisure/shiparea.html
Inshore waters forecast points are he
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/leisure/iswfplace.html
Wind is in Beaufort scale values.
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/educati.../beaufort.html

Some more information on the shipping forecast towards the end
of this article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1798629.stm

Paul