Editing Shipping Forecast (section)

===Radio===
[[Frank Muir]] and [[Denis Norden]] parodied the Shipping Forecast in a song written for an episode of ''[[Take It From Here]]'':
{{blockquote|<poem>In Ross and Finistère
The outlook is sinisterre
Rockall and Lundy
Will clear up by Monday</poem>}}

''[[Dead Ringers (series)|Dead Ringers]]'' parodied the Shipping Forecast using [[Brian Perkins]] rapping the forecast ("Dogger, Fisher, German Bight – becoming quite cyclonic. Occasional showers making you feel cat-atatatatatata-tonic..."). Many other versions have been used including a "Dale Warning" to warn where [[Dale Winton]] could be found over the coming period, and a spoof in which sailors are warned of ghostly galleons and other nightmarish apparitions.

[[Stephen Fry]], in his 1988 radio programme ''[[Saturday Night Fry]]'', issued the following "Shipping Forecast" in the first episode of the programme:
{{blockquote|<poem>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.</poem>}}

The BBC Radio 4 monologue sketch show ''One'' features a number of Shipping Forecast parodies, written by [[David Quantick]] and [[Daniel Maier]], such as the following, originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday 21 February 2008:
{{blockquote|<poem>And now with the time approaching 5&nbsp;pm,
It's time for the [[mid-life crisis]] forecast...

Forties; restless: three or four.
Marriage: stale; becoming suffocating.
Sportscar, jeans and t-shirt; westerly, five.
Waitress; blonde; 19 or 20.
[[Converse All-Stars]]; haircut; earring; children;
becoming embarrassed.
Tail between legs; atmosphere frosty;
Spare room: five or six.</poem>}}

In an episode of the BBC Radio 4 series ''[[Live on Arrival]]'', [[Steve Punt]] reads the Shopping Forecast, in which the regions are replaced with supermarket names, e.g. "[[Tesco]], [[Fine Fare]], [[Sainsbury's|Sainsbury]]". The sketch ends with the information, "joke mileage decreasing, end of show imminent".

On the broadcast at 0048 on Saturday 19 March 2011, the area forecasts were delivered by [[John Prescott]] to raise awareness of [[Red Nose Day 2011]], a charity event organised by [[Comic Relief]]. The format then reverted to the BBC continuity announcer [[Alice Arnold (broadcaster)|Alice Arnold]] for the reports on coastal areas. On delivering the area forecast for Humber, Prescott (who had represented the parliamentary constituency of [[Kingston upon Hull East (UK Parliament constituency)|Kingston upon Hull East]] for almost 40 years before retiring) slipped deliberately into his distinctive [[East Yorkshire]] accent – "'Umber – without the 'H', as we say it up there".

The comedian [[Marti Caine]] listed the Shipping Forecast as one of her eight records when she made her second appearance on ''[[Desert Island Discs]]'' on 24 March 1991.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/21ad3f47#p0093zbg |title=Castaway : Marti Caine |date=24 September 2011 |work=Desert Island Discs |publisher=BBC }}</ref>

The [[BBC Radio 1]] ''[[That's What He Said (podcast)|That's What He Said]]'' podcast by [[Greg James]] featured the shipping forecast being read out by Grace Hopper. This was done to make light of her inability to pronounce certain words.

On his December 28 2024 [[BBC Radio 6]] show, [[Gilles Peterson]] paid tribute to “100 years of The Shipping Forecast” playing “Seamus Heaney The Shipping Forecast - Poem”.

On 1 January 2025 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a series of programmes under the title "Shipping Forecast Day", to mark the start of a year of<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 - Shipping Forecast - The Shipping Forecast Centenary |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4Xd1HYns0lKBdl27DDGnWpG/the-shipping-forecast-centenary |website=BBC |access-date=4 January 2025}}</ref> celebrations of the centenary of the Shipping Forecast.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hogan |first1=Michael |title=Shipping Forecast Day, Radio 4, review: Gavin and Stacey's Nessa rules the airwaves |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-to-listen-to/shipping-forecast-day-radio-4-review/ |access-date=4 January 2025 |work=The Telegraph |date=1 January 2025}}</ref>