There are a whole load of programmes today BBC Radio 4 about the centenary of the Shipping Forecast bbc.co.uk/programmes/art… The programme featuring my contribution about the 00:48 broadcast is on BBC Sounds but will be also broadcast later tonight Al Ryan #ShippingForecast

Nice mention of my favourite inshore coastal area Ardnamurchan Point tonight by Al Ryan after the 00:48 BBC Radio 4 shipping forecast as a geology student in 1986 I spent all summer looking at the #conesheets & #dykes of Kilchoan Bay #ardnamurchanpoint

Anyone got any photos of Cox's Bar that used to be next to the Midland Hotel across from Central Station/G-Mex ? Carl 📷 Brian Groom ManchesterHist Jonathan Schofield

Join local author Juliette Tomlinson for a special author talk at Stretford Library, part of Thestretfest 2025, 1st March 4-5pm. Book your free ticket on Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/longford-a-m…

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… So I'm listening to BBC Radio 4 waiting for the #shippingforecast and #takefourbooks is on before it so listened back to some other episodes and recognise a narrator on the Jonathan Coe one and realise it's Dom Howell from thi wurd classes 📕📗📙📘

WTF is this blowhard on again tonight !! Victoria Derbyshire stop inviting him on....really can't be doing with this fella #newsnight #trumpmouthpiece #gobshite

Q: The great mystery of the midnight forty eight #shippingforecast on BBC Radio 4 where did Al Ryan missing pages get to the other night ? Answers on a postcard 🚢🌊 #unflappable

More wonderful stuff on #takefourbooks tonight featuring eoin mcnamee with Dom Howell in the producer's chair 📕📗📘📙

This Saturday I'll be part of the S.G.S.K.A.S. playing some of our fave #krautrock tunes on vinyl Lotte & Miles to celebrate my lifelong friend David Withington's 60th Birthday #year60 #55yearsoffriendship #stroud #neu #can #kraftwerk #krautrockjabitte

So I'm catching up on a couple of episodes of #TakeFourBooks with Xiaolu Guo's "Call Me Ishmaelle" James Crawford on bbc4 and who should I hear but the soft Scottish tones of Alan from thi wurd bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… and Dom Howell Who else is going to be on ? 📕📗📘📙

Seeing all the old comrades commemorating 80 Years since VE Day reminded me of my old pal Jack who served at Leuchars in the war which has also been in the news for having 18 completely dry days let's see if Al Ryan has news of rain at #midnightfortyeight #shippingforecast

Just started on Talking Pictures...can you spot familiar places ? ☠️

Catching up on #takefourbooks BBC Radio 4 with James Crawford & Dom Howell No Thanks and his novel #thelandinwinter which is set in the cold winter of 1963 which is also when my short story #thesixlanesuperhighway starts #1963 📕📗📘📙 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

So I ended up getting the next episode of #takefourbooks and it features my favourite writer from East Belfast Wendy Erskine with her new novel #TheBenefactors my copy arrived in the post today and also the new series of #TheBear🐻 starts - What A Day To Be Alive!! #misty

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… Gutted to have missed Wendy Erskine at your "Manchester" book signing event only just found out about after listening to you on Radio Ulster - there was nothing about it on X/Twitter I guess I need to check my #bluesky more often 🙈#thebenefactors

Just worked out with my new SkyQ box I can now watch programmes I thought I'd missed some episodes of when they were first broadcast so I'm watching one of my favourites Jim Moir Nancy Sorrell #paintingbirdswithjimandnancymoir #curlews #paintingbirds

Come and see our wonderful "Frank's World" exhibition Opening hours: Mondays 10am -7pm, 10am to 5pm Tuesday to Friday and 10am to 4pm on Saturdays. Trafford Local Studies, Sale Library Free Entry #franksidebottom #chrissievey #timperley

I'm so looking forward to listening to this tonight !! What's there not to like ? I'm sure my old pal Jack would have loved this 🚢🌊❤️ #shippingforecast #midnightfortyeight

This is happening today. Edinburgh Futures Institute, 3pm- Room 2.35. All welcome.

bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… This was very difficult watching...not long after this happened I was on my first hitch in the North Sea on a rig that was drilling a relief well for Occidental Oil - the remains of the Piper were visible #piperalpha #RestInPeace