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Watch out, Bert!

Turns out the Bard of Borsetshire isn't the only one who can knock out some cracking couplets. Here's what Archers listeners on and came up with for #NationalPoetryDay.

The Archers cast read Gray's Elegy

There was an old lady from Prudhoe...

The Archers features in The People's Shipping Forecast

The People's Shipping Forecast

Murray Lachlan Young performs The People's Shipping Forecast on National Poetry Day.

Ambridge' Shipping Forecast #1

Forties Dogger Pargetter wet, Fishnet falling.

FitzroyTucker rising, force 9 Haley imminent.

Andrew Clifforth on

Ambridge Shipping Forecast #2

Helen and Rob, slow moving with little change.

Rob's bisque poor, sole ocassionally poor.

Toby and Pip moderate and poor.

Eddie becoming good.

Ruth and Jill, cooling, stormy, veering to severe change at times.

Carol's cake, light icing.

Kenton silly automatic, Jolene introducing slight pressure.

Overall rates falling slowly. Visibility moderate to good.

Utter drizzle normally becoming fair. New low.

Elaine Baldy on

Ambridge Shipping Forecast #3

Forth - Helen go, Tyne - Ruth go, Dogger - Scruff here boy, piercing whistle #teamscruff

North Utsire, South Utsire - Rob - you choose...

Grundy I mean Lundy force 105. Kate Aldridge having a (several) Baileys...

South East Iceland Rob incoming...

South East Iceland losing Rob - heavy pressure.

Philippa Vereker on

Ambridge Shipping Forecast #4

Lillian - Fairisle knitting imminent (not).

Scruff, German Bight 'down boy'.

Forties - Kate, imminent.

Ann Brosnan on

National Poetry Day poem for Ruth:

she croaked

You're choked.
We're not.
So what?

Rosie Taylor on

The one that could have been

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