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Rodney Blackall writes:
Has anyone here timed the forecast at 7:57 am on Radio 4 recently?

My impression is that they are getting very short and rushed. If "The
Met Office has issued a severe weather warning" there is hardly time for
any forecast after the warning has been read out!

One problem us that the "Today" presenter often has trouble getting the
person being interviewed just before the forecast to stop talking, so
that the forecast often starts 30 seconds late. And of course the minute
or so of programme trailers after the forecast is apparently sacrosanct.
So the forecast is often reduced to only about 90 seconds.
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