The Shipping Forecast: Celebrating 100 Years Exhibition_The Van de Veldes This embroidered and embellished decoration

This embroidered and embellished decoration is hand-made by skilled artisans employed by the St Nicolas foundation

a dumbo octopus

investigate the potentially devastating impact of deep-sea mining

Jellysaucer loves spending her time zooming through the cosmos

the Odysseus and the Endurance

The Shipping Forecast: Celebrating 100 Years Exhibition_The Van de Veldes This embroidered and embellished decorationThe Shipping Forecast on Radio 4 has been keeping people in tune with the gloriously fickle British weather for a century, and capturing our hearts and imaginations along the way. Celebrating a hundred years since the first broadcast, this book takes you to the heart of what the Shipping Forecast means to us as a nation. Each of the ten chapters brings you on a fascinating exploration of a different area of our British maritime history, from stormy