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For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email or phone 020 3353 3857. ''Unfortunately our usual switch from BBC World Service, which is broadcast on Radio 4 overnight, didn't go as planned and was delayed by around 20 minutes,' said a spokeswoman for BBC Radio 4. In 2010, Radio 4 presenter Susan Powell read out a forecast which had already been given out 24 hours earlier. Produced by the Met Office, on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, the shipping forecast is aired at 12.48am, 5.20am, 12.01pm and 5.54pm.įriday's mishap is not the first time the Shipping Forecast has run aground.

Expect Farage to blame Brussels within the hour.' Mark Johnston tweeted: 'Nation in peril? BBC radio fails to broadcast shipping forecast this morning. The incident also allowed for a predictable link to headline-grabbing UKIP leader Nigel Farage. 'No shipping forecast, no shipping forecast, no bbcnewsbriefing. 'Confused by Radio 4 failing to start broadcasting at 5.25 this morning,' tweeted Graham Patterson. We're looking into it and we'll try and broadcast the Shipping Forecast for long-wave listeners during the course of the Today programme.'īut for some the damage to their established morning routine had already been done. But unfortunately due to a technical error, you've not been hearing us, so you have been hearing the BBC World Service. It's 5.40am and we've been happily broadcasting News Briefing. Friday morning's Shipping Forecast eventually aired 6.40am.īBC Radio 4 presenter Kathy Clugson apologised for the mistake, saying: 'You're listening to BBC Radio 4. The BBC was only able to resolve the issue at 5.40am when it cut back to the Radio 4 programme. Jordan Rowland added: 'No shipping forecast? If UK submarines don't get shipping forecast, don't they launch nuclear attack?' Isn't that the sign of impending nuclear armageddon?' The shipping forecast didn't get broadcast on this morning. A technical glitch meant the BBC's World Service was played in its place, a gaffe that prompted listeners to take to Twitter to voice their bewilderment.

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