THE VIDEO SHELF · bbc shipping forecast
5 Hours of The Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4!
Five hours of the late-night BBC Radio 4 Shipping Forecast, uploaded to mark its 150th anniversary. It can be used as sleep audio or to learn the sea areas named in the broadcast.
Why HN readers recommended it
Offered as a calming, dry, familiar broadcast, fitting for a crowd that enjoys ambient and lofi radio.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- icannotgetafreename
- Topic
- bbc shipping forecast
- Format
- other
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2021–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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> equivalent of having a nice cuppa on a cool, late summer's morning, while looking out the window at the long, brown grass swaying gently in the breeze Obligatory BBC Shipping Forecast, because it seems right up this crowd's alley: [VIDEO] Recent: [LINK]
ethbr0 on Hacker News · 2022-01
In Metal Detectorist Discovers One of England’s Earliest Gold Coins in a Farm FieldMaybe try the BBC shipping forecast? [VIDEO] I find the use of the Beaufort scale ( [LINK] ) gives it a particularly dry flavor...
ilikepi on Hacker News · 2023-04
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