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	Podcast:		99% Invisible
	Episode:		316- The Shipping Forecast
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:27:53
	Publish Date:		2018-07-24 21:41:03
	Description:		Four times every day, on radios all across the British Isles, a BBC announcer begins reading from a seemingly indecipherable script. "And now the Shipping Forecast issued by the Met Office on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency," says the voice over the wire. "Viking, North Utsire; southwesterly five to seven; occasionally gale eight; rain or showers; moderate or good, occasionally poor." Cryptic and mesmerizing, this is the UK’s nautical weather report. The Shipping Forecast
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