The aim of the lecture is to consider how both the radio broadcast and the poems it inspired conceptualise the cultural geography of the British Isles. This lecture examines poems which make reference to the Shipping Forecast, as broadcast by BBC Radio Four, including poems by Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy, Sean Street, Andrew McNeillie, and Andrew Waterman. Series 13: Dublin, One City One Book 2015 - The Barrytown Trilogy.Series 11: Irish Studies and the Environmental Humanities.Series 10: The Ireland Chair of Poetry Lectures.Series 9: Dublin: One City, One Book Lectures 2014.Series 8: The Irish Memory Studies Research Network Lectures: 'Gender and Commemoration'.

Series 7: The Literatures and Cultures of the Irish Sea.

Series 6: The UCD / Notre Dame Lectures.

▪ 1754 - transmitted only on LW on weekdays, as an opt-out from the PM programme, but at weekends transmitted on both FM and LW. ▪ 1201 - normally transmitted on LW only. Includes weather reports from coastal stations at 0525, and an inshore waters forecast at 0527. The broadcast finishes at approximately 0058.

Includes weather reports from an extended list of coastal stations at 0052 and an inshore waters forecast at 0055 and concludes with a brief UK weather outlook for the coming day. The waters around the British Isles are divided into sea areas, also known as weather areas There are four broadcasts per day at the following times: ▪ 0048 - transmitted on FM and LW. The forecasts sent over the Navtex system use a similar format and the same sea areas. It is produced by the Met Office and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. Shipping Forecast The Shipping Forecast is a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the coasts of the British Isles.

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