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Regular listeners may recognise the voices that read the news and fill the gaps between programmes. This is what makes them tick including emergency gin
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The history of storm alerts and the iconic Shipping Forecast broadcast by BBC Radio 4 each day can be traced back more than 150 years to 1859 in the early days of the forecasting agency.