Editing Shipping Forecast (section)

===Literature===
A number of minor characters in [[Jasper Fforde]]'s first novel, ''[[Characters in the Thursday Next series|The Eyre Affair]]'', are named after Sea Areas in the shipping forecast.

[[Charlie Connelly]]'s 2004 book ''Attention All Shipping'' (Little Brown: {{ISBN|0-316-72474-2}}) describes a project to visit every sea area with any land, and to travel by air or sea over the others.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Connelly |first1=Charlie |title='Moderate becoming good': my journey to every place in the shipping forecast |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/may/02/moderate-becoming-good-my-journey-to-every-place-in-the-shipping-forecast |access-date=20 July 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=2 May 2020}}</ref>

In the ''New York Times'' magazine dated 19 February 2023, the letter of recommendation by Grace Linden was an article on  the shipping forecast, in which she stated: "Like the sea itself, the Shipping Forecast is a reminder of the larger, more elemental forces at play, those things that are much more powerful than any of our individual worries or wants."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Linden |first1=Grace |title=A Secret for Falling Asleep So Good It's a British National Treasure |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/magazine/falling-asleep-shipping-forecast.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare |access-date=23 February 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=14 February 2023|url-access=subscription}}<br />{{cite web |last1=Linden |first1=Grace |title=Vastness |url=https://www.openhorizons.org/vastness-mysticism-and-the-weather-channel.html |website=Open Horizons |access-date=23 February 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

''Moderate Becoming Good Later''<!-- Note, no commas in title --> (Summersdale: {{ISBN|978-1800076105}}) is a 2023 book by siblings Toby and Katie Carr, describing Toby's kayaking trip around the shipping areas; Katie completed the book, from Toby's notes, after his death.<ref name="massey">{{cite news |last1=Massey |first1=Jon |title=Wapping: How Toby Carr went from paddling in Shadwell to European seas |url=https://wharf-life.com/interviews/wapping-moderate-becoming-good-later-toby-carr-katie-carr-tower-hamlets-canoe-club/ |access-date=4 June 2023 |work=Wharf Life |date=1 June 2023}}</ref>

In [[Carol Ann Duffy]]'s poem ''Prayer'', the final line is "Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer - Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre."<ref>{{cite web |title="Prayer," by Carol Ann Duffy |url=https://www.saltproject.org/progressive-christian-blog/2023/8/28/prayer-by-carol-ann-duffy |website=SALT Project |access-date=28 December 2024 |date=28 August 2023}}</ref>

In [[Amelia Ellis]]' 2008 novel ''The Fourth Aspect'', the protagonist is overcome by an emotional reaction when by chance listening to the shipping forecast on a road trip from London to the Scottish Highlands, leading her to the realization that "Sometimes we hold on to things or people for reasons that have nothing to do with them at all."<ref>{{cite book |last=Ellis|first=Amelia|author-link=Amelia Ellis|title=The Fourth Aspect|location=United Kingdom|publisher=Newton Pryce Ingram|year=2008|page=253|isbn=9783905965322}}</ref>