Stephen Fry Reads the Legendary British Shipping Forecast — openculture.com

And now, before the news and weather, here is the Shipping Forecast issued by the Meteorological Office at 1400 hours Greenwich Mean Time. Finisterre, Dogger, Rockall, Bailey: no. Wednesday, variable, imminent, super. South Utsire, North Utsire, Sheerness, Foulness, Eliot Ness: If you will, often, eminent, 447, 22 yards, touchdown, stupidly. Malin, Hebrides, Shetland, Jersey, Fair Isle, Turtle-Neck, Tank Top, Courtelle: Blowy, quite misty, sea sickness. Not many fish around, come home, veering suggestively. That was the Shipping Forecast for 1700 hours, Wednesday 18 August.

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