Jarvis Cocker of Pulp has morphed into a rather unlikely British national treasure and here he is fronting another one, the BBC’s Shipping Forecast. Re-imagined as the Sleeping Forecast for BBC Sounds.
BBC promotions can be irritating in their puppyish enthusiasm for not very much (like the few sports events it still holds) but very occasionally one successfully harks back to the days when the Beeb could be pleasingly eccentric. By Atime Works.
