The late shipping forecast. Some nights, something else comes through on the signal.
Turn the knob to switch on the late forecast.
Sound on, ideally in the dark. Where tonight's weather is right, an old story of these waters comes through: fog calls some, gales call others.
Or touch any sea area on the chart to hear its forecast and one of its stories.
● marks stories whose weather is right tonight. Choose any to hear it.
Every story here comes from real sea folklore of the coasts of Britain and Ireland: tales told by fishermen, pilots and lifeboatmen, many of them gathered by Victorian collectors who wrote them down before they were forgotten. We have retold each one in our own words. Legends are told as legends; where a story touches real history, such as a real shipwreck or a town lost to the sea, the history is true. Each story's own source is under "About this tale".
Retold by Claude and GPT-6. Read by George and Cori.