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Comment by ZenoArrow | Hacker News Reader

One song that samples the shipping forecast (that isn't mentioned in this article) is this Tears For Fears track from the 1980s:

http://youtu.be/FDUk11Z0bkQ

Gives you a good idea of the cadences in the shipping forecast itself. It can be strangely relaxing listening to the shipping forecast on BBC Radio 4.

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For completeness I've uploaded last night's shipping forecast here: http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/Shipping_Forecast_-_2017-12-27... [Out of date - Don't rely on it if you're sailing a boat!]

Of course it's not quite the same unless you put on Sailing By beforehand and listen to it in the dead of night.

I was curious what it sounded like but couldn't find any source.

Thanks, from a fellow Islander (PEI, Canada).

And Biscay is in for a rough night force 11!

Forget relaxing! We can have some fun with this; The Young Punx:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb9jQN5hdLY

"Perhaps violence later"

Listening to the shipping forecast is a kind of modern day ritual, I get something similar out of ASMR videos such as this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD6ZktAF_hk

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