I Used To Like The Interval Programmes

on BBC television, whether the films were of  windmills, 
kittens playing with wool, knitting, the potters wheel, 
or a field being ploughed among many others. 
But like many parents and children who were new
to the medium I should have been more careful 
about what I let my brain be exposed to. 

The Art Of The Weather

On BBC 24 hour news weather reports
arrive half hourly, like empty buses
on which nobody alights.
Every forecast  has a background picture
that is meant to illustrate what the presenter has to say.
I wonder, would the weather have more class
if for backgrounds, instead of using  photographs,
the BBC selected nineteenth century oils paintings,
as made by W. M. Turner, or Gustav Courbet?