Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age pasture of incidental tones and half-ripped photographs". "BBC Music Review" reviewed the album favorably, stating, ""Witch Cults of the Radio Age" is laced with enough wonder and intrigue to keep you coming back. It doesn't make perfect sense, but the sense of mystery is a key in itself". "Drowned in Sound" called the album "chaotic, overstimulating, like opening a dusty wardrobe and having an entire childhood tumble down on your head". "Pitchfork" critiqued the album as "predictable" and said that the collaboration between Broadcast and the Focus Group was like "trying to cast their spells at the same time: Some
Shipping Forecast The Controller of BBC Radio 4, Mark Damazer, attempted to explain its popularity: Zeb Soanes, a regular Shipping Forecast reader, described it thus: Another regular reader of the Forecast, Kathy Clugston, described it as "Like a lullaby, almost". The Shipping Forecast has inspired a number of songs and poems. Frank Muir and Denis Norden parodied the Shipping Forecast in a song written for an episode of "Take It From Here": "Dead Ringers" parodied the Shipping Forecast using Brian Perkins rapping the forecast ("Dogger, Fisher, German Bight – becoming quite cyclonic. Occasional showers making you feel cat-atatatatatata-tonic..."). Many other versions have