This programme, devised by Nigel Foster, celebrates the centenary of the first Shipping Forecast to be broadcast on British radio. Songs by Elgar, Quilter, Finzi, Florence Price, Michael Head, John Ireland, Peter Warlock, Charles Ives, Samuel Barber, Julian Philips, Kurt Weill, Noël Coward and others are combined with readings from Kenneth Graham, Virginia Woolf, Arthur Ransome, Samuel Johnson, Shakespeare, Rabindranath Tagore, Walt Whitman, Hemingway, Bob Dylan and many more.

Jess Dandy – contralto
Gareth Brynmor John – baritone
Nigel Foster – piano
Simon Butteriss – speaker

https://www.londonsongfestival.org/concerts-1