Paddy O'Connell
Appearances
Global News Podcast
Trump again accuses Zelensky of not wanting peace
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Global News Podcast
Trump again accuses Zelensky of not wanting peace
And did the family feel a sense of shame?
Global News Podcast
Trump again accuses Zelensky of not wanting peace
In other words, if she had talked about the abuse she'd suffered and that she didn't premeditate it, she would never have received the death penalty.
Global News Podcast
Trump again accuses Zelensky of not wanting peace
Although we know you as an actor, have you gone and read the transcripts and spoken to people about it?
Global News Podcast
Trump again accuses Zelensky of not wanting peace
Was war die Atmosphäre, als du die Schuhe und die Szene filmst? Es war unglaublich.
Global News Podcast
Trump again accuses Zelensky of not wanting peace
In his lifetime, you found out that he tried his best to assist the family.
Global News Podcast
Trump again accuses Zelensky of not wanting peace
It was all done at great speed, wasn't it? Between the shooting and her hanging was only a matter of months.
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New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
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Global News Podcast
New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
The BBC's Paddy O'Connell told us more about it. When you hear the forecast, you are hearing a journey clockwise round the British Isles, starting in Viking and ending up in Iceland.
Global News Podcast
New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
So there are 31 areas and it follows a code, which is there is a full sentence that we all use in speech and a lot of those words are taken out just to get to the main points, which are the visibility, the wind speed, the wind direction is very important and the warnings of gales in the 31 shipping areas. And how did it come about? Well, Britain has, through its history, been shaped by ships.
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New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
And if you think about some of the great events, the Romans arrived here on ships. The Armada was blown off course by the weather. D-Day was delayed. The biggest Armada ever assembled in history was delayed for 24 hours by weather. A weather forecast. But actually, what happened was, in the Victorian era, shipwrecks were making people absolutely horrified.
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New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
And there was one year, 1859, when one accident in particular horrified the nation. A vessel coming all the way from Australia to Liverpool, founded off the coast of Wales... 450 souls were lost, but crucially all women and children. The public was disgusted. And one man thought he could invent a forecast.
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New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
And so he put together a physical forecast by telegraph to warn sailors, Vice Admiral Fitzroy.
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New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
Well, so his physical forecast was shapes on the shore. It then went on to radio in the 1920s and was crucial. It saved thousands of lives over the years. Then, as you're rightly saying, recent technology has led people to say it's redundant. We've got GPS. And there was really a big backlash, I think, about it.
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New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
You're right to say it's been cultural and poetic joy for many people, but who uses it? Well, recently what's happened, of course, is that the Russians have started jamming GPS signals in the Baltic Sea, and mysterious agents have been dragging their anchors over the subsea cables, which is how our internet is delivered to island and archipelago nations listening to you around the world.
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New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
So actually, like the plot of The Matrix... It's all very well trusting the tech, but actually you need a human. And the weather forecast, the shipping forecast itself, is still drawn up by a human. So I say I understand the argument that I can rely on my device, but I'd rather have a human in the engine room.
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New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
No, that's totally true. I mean, there's millions of fans of it around the world. In fact, recently a small experiment's been carried out here in delivering it, asking people, where do you listen? And people who are homesick tune into it when they're on holiday or travelling abroad. And then there are plenty of people who've left the UK to live all around the world and they like to hear it.
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New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
And people who don't live here but just want to know, who are these weird British people? What makes them tick? It appears to be the bongs, the pips and the ships. Who are they, these British? So, I mean, it's a line of 100 years of who we are. And we've changed a lot. But there's something that has not changed about the shipping forecast.
Global News Podcast
New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
And I think that's why a lot of us do like it, even if we don't all understand it. And I was talking to Paddy O'Connell.