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      "id": 0,
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      "text": "26, maybe 27, Celsius."
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      "id": 1,
      "start": 3.4,
      "end": 4.4,
      "text": "Thank you Simon."
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    {
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      "start": 4.4,
      "end": 7.8,
      "text": "This is BBC Radio 4, where now it's time for the shipping bulletin issued by the"
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      "id": 3,
      "start": 7.8,
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      "text": "Met Office on behalf of the Maritime and Coast Guard Agency."
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      "start": 10.8,
      "end": 14.8,
      "text": "At 05-05 today, Saturday, the 15th of August."
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      "text": "There are warnings of gales in Fitzroy."
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      "text": "The General Synopsis at midnight, new low expected just south of Iceland,"
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      "start": 21.84,
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      "text": "1,013 by midnight to night."
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      "start": 24.64,
      "end": 27.12,
      "text": "The area forecast for the next 24 hours."
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      "text": "Viking, Northwood Sierra, Southwood Sierra."
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      "start": 29.72,
      "end": 34.12,
      "text": "Western or Northwest to Lee 3-5, occasionally 6 in Southwood Sierra."
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      "start": 34.12,
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      "text": "Showers, moderate or good."
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      "start": 36.64,
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      "text": "Forties, chromatine, fourth-time doger."
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      "text": "West or Northwest 3-5, becoming variable 2-4 at times."
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      "start": 43.88,
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      "text": "Showers, good, occasionally moderate."
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      "text": "Fisher, North or Northwest 4-6, occasionally 7 in the northeast."
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      "start": 52.52,
      "end": 57.04,
      "text": "Showers, perhaps thundery, good, occasionally moderate."
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      "start": 57.04,
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      "text": "German bite."
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      "text": "North or Northwest 3-5, occasionally 2 in the South West."
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      "start": 63.12,
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      "text": "Thundery showers, good, occasionally moderate."
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      "start": 66.52,
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      "text": "Humber, North or Northeast backing North West 3-4, showers, perhaps thundery, moderate or good."
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      "start": 74.12,
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      "text": "Tems, dover, white."
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      "start": 76.36,
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      "text": "North or Northeast 3-5, occasionally 6 for a time in Dover."
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      "start": 80.52,
      "end": 84.16,
      "text": "Showers, perhaps thundery, moderate or good."
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      "start": 84.16,
      "end": 85.68,
      "text": "Portland, Plymouth."
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      "start": 85.68,
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      "text": "North backing North West at times 3-5, showers, good."
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      "start": 91.44,
      "end": 92.76,
      "text": "Biscay."
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      "start": 92.76,
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      "text": "North or Northwest 3-5, but variable 2-4 in the southeast."
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      "start": 97.8,
      "end": 101.52,
      "text": "Thundery showers, good, occasionally moderate."
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      "start": 101.52,
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      "text": "Fitzroy."
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      "start": 102.8,
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      "text": "North or 3-5, but 5-7 in the South."
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      "start": 106.4,
      "end": 108.96,
      "text": "Occasionally gale 8 for a time in the southeast."
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      "start": 108.96,
      "end": 111.0,
      "text": "Showers, good."
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      "start": 111.0,
      "end": 113.04,
      "text": "Soul, Lundy, Fastnet."
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      "start": 113.04,
      "end": 116.52,
      "text": "Mainly North 3-5, but variable 2-4 at times."
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      "start": 116.52,
      "end": 118.48,
      "text": "Showers, good."
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      "start": 118.48,
      "end": 119.72,
      "text": "Irish Sea."
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      "start": 119.72,
      "end": 123.96,
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      "start": 123.96,
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      "text": "Rain later, good."
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      "start": 126.28,
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      "text": "Shannon."
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      "start": 127.28,
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      "text": "Variable 2-4, becoming Southwest 4-5."
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      "start": 131.4,
      "end": 134.96,
      "text": "Showers or rain later, moderate or good."
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      "start": 134.96,
      "end": 136.0,
      "text": "Rokal."
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      "start": 136.0,
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      "text": "West backing Southwest 3-4, becoming cyclonic 4-5 later."
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      "start": 140.8,
      "end": 144.48,
      "text": "Showers, rain later, moderate or good."
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      "start": 144.48,
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      "text": "Malin."
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      "text": "West or Northwest backing Southwest 3-4, occasionally 5 at first and later."
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      "text": "Rain later, good, occasionally moderate."
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      "start": 155.08,
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      "text": "Hebrides Bayley."
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      "start": 157.32,
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      "text": "West 3-4, occasionally 5 at first, becoming variable 3 or less later."
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      "start": 162.28,
      "end": 164.52,
      "text": "Showers, good."
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      "start": 164.52,
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      "text": "Feral, ferros."
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      "start": 166.24,
      "end": 170.76,
      "text": "West or Northwest 3-5, becoming variable 3 or less in ferros."
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      "text": "And later in ferroil."
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      "start": 172.68,
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      "text": "Rain or showers, good, occasionally poor."
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      "start": 175.8,
      "end": 177.48,
      "text": "And Southeast Iceland."
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      "text": "Variable 2-4, but normally or Northwest 3-5 at first in the Northeast."
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      "start": 182.56,
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      "text": "Occasionally rain, good, occasionally poor."
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      "start": 186.56,
      "end": 190.4,
      "text": "Now here are the weather reports from coastal stations for O4-00."
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      "id": 59,
      "start": 190.4,
      "end": 191.8,
      "text": "Tyree Automatic."
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    {
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      "start": 191.8,
      "end": 193.76,
      "text": "Northwest by West 2."
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      "start": 193.76,
      "end": 194.56,
      "text": "Rain."
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      "id": 62,
      "start": 194.56,
      "end": 195.76,
      "text": "Four miles."
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    {
      "id": 63,
      "start": 195.76,
      "end": 197.08,
      "text": "One thousand and nineteen."
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      "id": 64,
      "start": 197.08,
      "end": 198.6,
      "text": "Now falling."
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    {
      "id": 65,
      "start": 198.6,
      "end": 199.84,
      "text": "Stornaway."
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    {
      "id": 66,
      "start": 199.84,
      "end": 202.0,
      "text": "Southwest by West 3."
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      "id": 67,
      "start": 202.0,
      "end": 202.84,
      "text": "Rain."
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      "id": 68,
      "start": 202.84,
      "end": 204.16,
      "text": "Twenty four miles."
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      "id": 69,
      "start": 204.16,
      "end": 205.64,
      "text": "One thousand and sixteen."
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    {
      "id": 70,
      "start": 205.64,
      "end": 207.8,
      "text": "Falling slowly."
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    {
      "id": 71,
      "start": 207.8,
      "end": 208.72,
      "text": "Lowick."
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      "id": 72,
      "start": 208.72,
      "end": 210.24,
      "text": "West Southwest 3."
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    {
      "id": 73,
      "start": 210.24,
      "end": 211.4,
      "text": "Recent drizzle."
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    {
      "id": 74,
      "start": 211.4,
      "end": 212.88,
      "text": "One thousand and twelve."
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    {
      "id": 75,
      "start": 212.88,
      "end": 215.28,
      "text": "Falling slowly."
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    {
      "id": 76,
      "start": 215.28,
      "end": 216.28,
      "text": "Lucas."
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    {
      "id": 77,
      "start": 216.28,
      "end": 217.88,
      "text": "West by South 2."
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    {
      "id": 78,
      "start": 217.88,
      "end": 219.24,
      "text": "Thirty two miles."
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    {
      "id": 79,
      "start": 219.24,
      "end": 220.64,
      "text": "One thousand and seventeen."
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      "id": 80,
      "start": 220.64,
      "end": 222.96,
      "text": "Now falling."
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    {
      "id": 81,
      "start": 222.96,
      "end": 223.76,
      "text": "Bridlington."
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    {
      "id": 82,
      "start": 223.76,
      "end": 225.0,
      "text": "Northwest 2."
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    {
      "id": 83,
      "start": 225.0,
      "end": 226.12,
      "text": "One thousand and seventeen."
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    {
      "id": 84,
      "start": 226.12,
      "end": 227.92,
      "text": "Steady."
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      "id": 85,
      "start": 227.92,
      "end": 228.92,
      "text": "Standard."
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    {
      "id": 86,
      "start": 228.92,
      "end": 229.92,
      "text": "See like this automatic."
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    {
      "id": 87,
      "start": 229.92,
      "end": 230.92,
      "text": "North 2."
    },
    {
      "id": 88,
      "start": 230.92,
      "end": 231.92,
      "text": "Two miles."
    },
    {
      "id": 89,
      "start": 231.92,
      "end": 234.84,
      "text": "One thousand and fifteen."
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    {
      "id": 90,
      "start": 234.84,
      "end": 236.84,
      "text": "Greenwich like this automatic."
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    {
      "id": 91,
      "start": 236.84,
      "end": 238.64,
      "text": "Northeast by North 4."
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    {
      "id": 92,
      "start": 238.64,
      "end": 239.8,
      "text": "Two miles."
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    {
      "id": 93,
      "start": 239.8,
      "end": 242.44,
      "text": "One thousand and fourteen."
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    {
      "id": 94,
      "start": 242.44,
      "end": 243.76,
      "text": "Jersey."
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    {
      "id": 95,
      "start": 243.76,
      "end": 245.48,
      "text": "Northwest by West 2."
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    {
      "id": 96,
      "start": 245.48,
      "end": 246.6,
      "text": "Six miles."
    },
    {
      "id": 97,
      "start": 246.6,
      "end": 248.0,
      "text": "One thousand and sixteen."
    },
    {
      "id": 98,
      "start": 248.0,
      "end": 249.84,
      "text": "Now rising."
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    {
      "id": 99,
      "start": 249.84,
      "end": 251.76,
      "text": "Channel like this automatic."
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    {
      "id": 100,
      "start": 251.76,
      "end": 253.32,
      "text": "North by West 4."
    },
    {
      "id": 101,
      "start": 253.32,
      "end": 256.2,
      "text": "One thousand and seventeen."
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    {
      "id": 102,
      "start": 256.2,
      "end": 257.6,
      "text": "Clearly automatic."
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    {
      "id": 103,
      "start": 257.6,
      "end": 259.44,
      "text": "North by East 4."
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    {
      "id": 104,
      "start": 259.44,
      "end": 260.8,
      "text": "Fifteen miles."
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    {
      "id": 105,
      "start": 260.8,
      "end": 262.6,
      "text": "One thousand and nineteen."
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    {
      "id": 106,
      "start": 262.6,
      "end": 265.0,
      "text": "Falling slowly."
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    {
      "id": 107,
      "start": 265.0,
      "end": 266.12,
      "text": "Polentia."
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    {
      "id": 108,
      "start": 266.12,
      "end": 267.4,
      "text": "Northwest 2."
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    {
      "id": 109,
      "start": 267.4,
      "end": 268.88,
      "text": "Twenty two miles."
    },
    {
      "id": 110,
      "start": 268.88,
      "end": 270.6,
      "text": "One thousand and twenty three."
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    {
      "id": 111,
      "start": 270.6,
      "end": 272.88,
      "text": "Falling slowly."
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    {
      "id": 112,
      "start": 272.88,
      "end": 274.2,
      "text": "Ronald's way."
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    {
      "id": 113,
      "start": 274.2,
      "end": 275.44,
      "text": "Northwest 3."
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    {
      "id": 114,
      "start": 275.44,
      "end": 276.8,
      "text": "Nineteen miles."
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    {
      "id": 115,
      "start": 276.8,
      "end": 278.16,
      "text": "One thousand and twenty."
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    {
      "id": 116,
      "start": 278.16,
      "end": 280.52,
      "text": "Falling slowly."
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    {
      "id": 117,
      "start": 280.52,
      "end": 281.76,
      "text": "Malinhead."
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    {
      "id": 118,
      "start": 281.76,
      "end": 283.32,
      "text": "West Northwest 4."
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    {
      "id": 119,
      "start": 283.32,
      "end": 284.72,
      "text": "Twenty four miles."
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    {
      "id": 120,
      "start": 284.76,
      "end": 286.52,
      "text": "One thousand and twenty one."
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    {
      "id": 121,
      "start": 286.52,
      "end": 289.76,
      "text": "Now rising."
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    {
      "id": 122,
      "start": 289.76,
      "end": 293.88,
      "text": "Now here's the weather forecast for the inshaw waters of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"
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    {
      "id": 123,
      "start": 293.88,
      "end": 296.2,
      "text": "for the following 24 hours."
    },
    {
      "id": 124,
      "start": 296.2,
      "end": 300.16,
      "text": "The general situation, a ridge of high pressure building across the United Kingdom from the"
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    {
      "id": 125,
      "start": 300.16,
      "end": 303.76,
      "text": "southwest will maintain relatively light winds through the period."
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    {
      "id": 126,
      "start": 303.76,
      "end": 308.32,
      "text": "However, there will be showers in most places and rain and drizzle will develop later in"
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    {
      "id": 127,
      "start": 308.32,
      "end": 314.28,
      "text": "the west and north as decaying frontal troughs encroach from the west."
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    {
      "id": 128,
      "start": 314.28,
      "end": 317.44,
      "text": "From Cape Rath to Ratray Head including Orkney."
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    {
      "id": 129,
      "start": 317.44,
      "end": 323.28,
      "text": "Westily or north-westily three or four increasing five at times decreasing variable three or less"
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    {
      "id": 130,
      "start": 323.28,
      "end": 325.28,
      "text": "later in the far north."
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    {
      "id": 131,
      "start": 325.28,
      "end": 328.32,
      "text": "Showers good occasionally moderate."
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    {
      "id": 132,
      "start": 328.32,
      "end": 330.52,
      "text": "From Ratray Head to Berkabon Tweed."
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    {
      "id": 133,
      "start": 330.52,
      "end": 334.4,
      "text": "Westily or north-westily backing south-westily for a time three or four."
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    {
      "id": 134,
      "start": 334.4,
      "end": 337.36,
      "text": "Occasionally five in the south and two in the north."
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    {
      "id": 135,
      "start": 337.36,
      "end": 339.8,
      "text": "Showers good."
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    {
      "id": 136,
      "start": 339.8,
      "end": 342.16,
      "text": "From Berkabon Tweed to Whitby."
    },
    {
      "id": 137,
      "start": 342.24,
      "end": 346.0,
      "text": "West or north-west becoming variable at times two to four."
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    {
      "id": 138,
      "start": 346.0,
      "end": 348.28,
      "text": "Showers good."
    },
    {
      "id": 139,
      "start": 348.28,
      "end": 351.04,
      "text": "From Whitby to Gibraltar Point."
    },
    {
      "id": 140,
      "start": 351.04,
      "end": 353.96,
      "text": "North or north-west becoming variable two to four."
    },
    {
      "id": 141,
      "start": 353.96,
      "end": 356.76,
      "text": "Showers good."
    },
    {
      "id": 142,
      "start": 356.76,
      "end": 359.4,
      "text": "From Gibraltar Point to North-Fallend."
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    {
      "id": 143,
      "start": 359.4,
      "end": 362.0,
      "text": "Northily or north-eastily two to four."
    },
    {
      "id": 144,
      "start": 362.0,
      "end": 367.0,
      "text": "Occasionally five in the south becoming variable three or less later in the north."
    },
    {
      "id": 145,
      "start": 367.0,
      "end": 368.84,
      "text": "Showers, thunder for a time."
    },
    {
      "id": 146,
      "start": 368.84,
      "end": 372.12,
      "text": "Good occasionally moderate."
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    {
      "id": 147,
      "start": 372.16,
      "end": 374.96,
      "text": "From north-Fallend to Selcibil."
    },
    {
      "id": 148,
      "start": 374.96,
      "end": 381.2,
      "text": "North-east three or four occasionally five in the east becoming variable three or less in the west."
    },
    {
      "id": 149,
      "start": 381.2,
      "end": 382.68,
      "text": "Thundery showers for a time."
    },
    {
      "id": 150,
      "start": 382.68,
      "end": 385.56,
      "text": "Good occasionally moderate."
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    {
      "id": 151,
      "start": 385.56,
      "end": 388.36,
      "text": "From Selcibil to Limerieges."
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    {
      "id": 152,
      "start": 388.36,
      "end": 390.8,
      "text": "North or north-east two to four."
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    {
      "id": 153,
      "start": 390.8,
      "end": 392.76,
      "text": "Occasionally five at first."
    },
    {
      "id": 154,
      "start": 392.76,
      "end": 394.08,
      "text": "Showers at first."
    },
    {
      "id": 155,
      "start": 394.08,
      "end": 395.88,
      "text": "Good."
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    {
      "id": 156,
      "start": 395.88,
      "end": 399.52,
      "text": "From Limerieges to Landsend including the Isles of Silly."
    },
    {
      "id": 157,
      "start": 399.56,
      "end": 405.04,
      "text": "Northily or north-eastily three or four occasionally five in the west and two in the east."
    },
    {
      "id": 158,
      "start": 405.04,
      "end": 407.44,
      "text": "Fair good."
    },
    {
      "id": 159,
      "start": 407.44,
      "end": 411.2,
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      "text": "The Isle of Man."
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    {
      "id": 175,
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    {
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    {
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      "text": "Showers rain later."
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    {
      "id": 181,
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    {
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      "text": "Showers rain later."
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    {
      "id": 185,
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    {
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    {
      "id": 189,
      "start": 520.12,
      "end": 523.8,
      "text": "And finally for this shipping bulletin the Shetland Isles."
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    {
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      "start": 523.8,
      "end": 526.84,
      "text": "West-veering north-west three to five."
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    {
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      "end": 531.8,
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    {
      "id": 192,
      "start": 531.8,
      "end": 535.2,
      "text": "And that completes the shipping bulletin."
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    {
      "id": 193,
      "start": 535.24,
      "end": 544.12,
      "text": "This is BBC Radio 4 where now it's time for preffer the day with Alison Jack of Edinburgh University's School of Divinity."
    },
    {
      "id": 194,
      "start": 544.12,
      "end": 545.2,
      "text": "Good morning."
    },
    {
      "id": 195,
      "start": 545.2,
      "end": 552.36,
      "text": "Today the Edinburgh International Book Festival opens at Spiegel-Tent doors in the grounds of the Edinburgh Futures Institute."
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    {
      "id": 196,
      "start": 552.36,
      "end": 556.64,
      "text": "The theme of this year's book festival is changing your mind."
    },
    {
      "id": 197,
      "start": 556.64,
      "end": 560.4,
      "text": "The theme neatly plays on at least two of the meanings of changing."
    },
    {
      "id": 198,
      "start": 560.4,
      "end": 568.64,
      "text": "Either a structural change in the collective mind or brain, think of what happens in the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly,"
    },
    {
      "id": 199,
      "start": 568.64,
      "end": 573.32,
      "text": "and the image on the festival programme is a representation of that very dramatic change."
    },
    {
      "id": 200,
      "start": 573.32,
      "end": 579.92,
      "text": "Or a change of mind might involve a vault fast in one's thinking, a moment of enlightenment or new information,"
    },
    {
      "id": 201,
      "start": 579.92,
      "end": 584.04,
      "text": "which makes it impossible to hold on to something we used to believe."
    },
    {
      "id": 202,
      "start": 584.04,
      "end": 589.0,
      "text": "Writers of detective fiction are experts at leading their readers in one direction,"
    },
    {
      "id": 203,
      "start": 589.0,
      "end": 593.4,
      "text": "and then persuading their readers that they need to change their minds completely."
    },
    {
      "id": 204,
      "start": 593.4,
      "end": 598.8,
      "text": "In many novels of all kinds, the function of the plot is to put the characters and situations"
    },
    {
      "id": 205,
      "start": 598.8,
      "end": 607.72,
      "text": "which lead the reader to move from suspicion or even dislike towards a new understanding of those characters past and present experience."
    },
    {
      "id": 206,
      "start": 607.72,
      "end": 612.16,
      "text": "As the characters develop in self-understanding, so do we about them."
    },
    {
      "id": 207,
      "start": 612.2,
      "end": 617.72,
      "text": "And Jane Austen was an expert at leading her characters and her readers on this narrative journey."
    },
    {
      "id": 208,
      "start": 617.72,
      "end": 622.88,
      "text": "There are some modern writers such as Ian McEwen, who take us in a different direction entirely,"
    },
    {
      "id": 209,
      "start": 622.88,
      "end": 629.96,
      "text": "and carefully reveal aspects of a character which shock us into wondering why we ever trusted them in the first place."
    },
    {
      "id": 210,
      "start": 629.96,
      "end": 634.44,
      "text": "The very best novels change our minds in both senses of that phrase,"
    },
    {
      "id": 211,
      "start": 634.44,
      "end": 641.32,
      "text": "expanding our capacity for empathy and understanding in context we're unlikely ever to experience,"
    },
    {
      "id": 212,
      "start": 641.32,
      "end": 650.04,
      "text": "honing our skills at critical thinking and asking us to grapple with ethical issues we might otherwise ignore or avoid."
    },
    {
      "id": 213,
      "start": 650.04,
      "end": 654.44,
      "text": "Creative God, we thank you for the talents and skills of writers of all kinds,"
    },
    {
      "id": 214,
      "start": 654.44,
      "end": 659.92,
      "text": "and for the power of imagination to change minds for good. Amen."
    }
  ]
}