Jess and baritone Gareth Brynmor John perform a programme devised by pianist Nigel Foster, celebrating 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.