Classic BBC Radio Theme ~ Shipping Forecast (Sailing By)
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- This is "Sailing By" composed by Ronald Binge in 1963, and performed by the Alan Perry/William Gardner Orchestra, and is the version used by the BBC for its late night shipping forecast.
Sailing By is played every night on BBC Radio 4 at around 00:45hrs before the late Shipping Forecast. Its tune is repetitive, assisting in its role of serving as a signal for sailors tuning in to be able to easily identify the radio station. It also functions as a buffer - depending on when the final programme before closedown finishes, Sailing By (or part of it) is played as a 'filler' as the shipping forecast starts at 00:48hrs precisely. The initial reason for its introduction was because of the indeterminate finish time for the preceding Midnight News, leading to filling music being played until the Shipping Forecast was due to start. Sailing By was added to allow for a clear break between the end of the music and the start of the forecast
I have come here for my Dad. We used to caravan on the top of Flambrough Head in Yorks. Laying listening to the rain pound on the roof, and this tune would come on the radio. My Dad was an old Navy man, and could decipher the meteorological code in the shipping forecast. He would always know what the weather was going to bring, even before the day had really started. He taught me how to do the same; and it kept me safe in the mountains for many a year. Thanks Dad, I miss you.
Loved Flamborough head in the 70’s. Stayed in an old converted tram on the left as you drive towards the lighthouse. I’m hitting the 60’s now and no one left but what a great place and tune👍
a piece of music can clearly record all the subtle details of our feelings
WOW blooming WOW!!!!
R I P " Dad "
Bless you ❤️Those are some good memories, man. May your fathers presence and the good times live on with you always
My dad died on 7th Jan 2024. He had a fishing boat at Bridlington. He listened to this every night before he went to sleep. He is having this on the way in to the crem and it will be the final tune he hears. Love you millions. X.
So sorry for your loss. All the best.
Just read your comment so sorry for your loss be strong ❤
Keep this song in your heart ❤️
Im sorry for your loss man
Your dad is in the best place now, in your mind and heart where he should be. He will be with you always.
there's an entire subculture of insomniacs united by this music.
i think of boats at sea & all the other people who are awake, working and not sleeping listening this. makes me all warm, cosy and slightly melancholy. lovely stuff.
Well said
Thought it was just me!
John Mowbray Oh no - it's me too! I'm absolutely hooked on it - my nightly fix!
kuryakin75
I think of driving my girlfriend home after a tempestuous night!
kuryakin75 ah I miss the days when Radio Four shut at night, handing over to the World Service until the time came for life as you knew it to begin again with the UK theme (also sadly missed).
Nights don't and will never feel anything like they used to. I'm sure it's a bit of rose-tinted glasses, but I'm equally sure I'm not alone in missing that feeling.
this was the final song everynight dad listened to before he went to bed. he would shout out they are playing our song. he passed away yesterday and this will be his departing song
This is the one song my husband requested at his funeral....didnt think I would have to use it so soon....its beautiful...thank you!
money cannot buy the tranquillity this old fashioned gentle British music accords our tired spirits.
Rest in Peace my beautiful Mother, a daughter of the Commonwealth and of beautiful Cornwall, England; to the day I die I will awake at 12:30 at night to the sound of this most treasured anthem. RiP, Mum and God bless all of you who will understand what I am saying.
I have a cat, who when she was very young became very ill and required around the clock care for a couple of weeks. Whenever this came on in the evening I used to sing along to it whilst stroking her. Ever since it has become "Our tune" and she always comes to me for a cuddle whenever she hears it.
That's a sweet story and picture!!
@ Rebecca Dittman & Big Valerie - How are your cats doing now?
That's a lovely story!
How beautiful..x
That is so comforting that you cared so much. Thank you.
Greetings from New England to the mariners and fishermen from the British Isles. May the great tradition of the sea forever unite us in friendship and respect.
Just wonderful, and so evocative. I chose it for the recessional music at the crematorium, at my husband's funeral. He spent 42 years serving in the Royal Navy, and was a seafaring man through and through. We sailed in our spare time too and listened to the weather forecasts every day. Now I listen to it at night, as I invariably wake up about then, and it brings back happy and poignant memories. So soothing.
That's beautiful Peter. So sorry for your loss.
absolutley breathtaking xxxx
Thank you for sharing your memories and my partner and I hope that you still get comfort from this beautiful piece. PJ and John
This was the exit music at my grandfather's funeral. 12 years a royal marine, so combining the ashokan farewell and this made sense. Ultimately, it is a great piece of music
I didn't even know your husband, but your story brought a tear to my eye
Played this yesterday at my dad's funeral as I carried him in. It'll always give me pause, joy and tears. Wonderful
So happy as an American to discover BBC sounds.
As an Australian I love it too.
This reminds me of my Dad. He would always sleep with the radio on. I remember that this would play before the shipping forecast. I miss him.
I am a Saudi student who lived with this piece of music for five years. At first, my intention was to improve my language. After a while, I found myself addicted to listen to! How amazing piece of music. I feel it, go deeper with its tone, remembering my brother who pass away and feel traveling to somewhere in past.
I always listen to Sailing By before turning out the light. It fills me with the same melancoly each time: an acute sense of sadness that life is fleeting and its purpose mysterious.
I remember hearing this for the first time: I was 13 and was being bullied at school so badly that I had a nervous breakdown. Classical music was always very soothing for me but when I heard Sailing By, I was brought to tears from despair. However by the end of it, I felt a small feeling of hope. A small amount of strength to continue on.
It's fascinating how music can affect people in countless ways.
Wow that's sad. I hope you're OK now
Beautiful that was Dylan, keep listening, God loves you ❤️
So glad that you found healing and peace in this music .
Your story is very moving, it brought me to tears. I'm glad this beautiful tune gave you strength. Hope your ok now.
I well remember, in the days before modern electronics, the comfort this brought whilst waiting for the weather forecast on dark, lonely and uncertain nights off Scotland.
As a nurse working through Pandemic this has soothed me to sleep on so many nights.
My respects and thank you and your colleagues!
Thanks so much. You guys did great!! It's kept me from seeking mental help for donkeys years. Wherever I am.in the world I listen to this every night/day. In California it is afternoon e.g.
It is beautiful isn’t it?
Well done you and good luck, you do a good job.
what pandemic
My Grandfather would listen to this every night on the "wireless". It was a big part of what i remember from my childhood of him. He fought in WW2, smoked roll ups and still found time during the war to prank someone and have a laugh. That was the kind of man he was. He brought home with him what today would be called PTSD, and with no help for this he was abusive to my grandmother for a time but they stuck together and raised seven children. He had softened by the time i came along and was a brilliant grandfather.
He died in 2012, but i have a lot of fond memories of him, and this was one of them. Thank you. R.I.P granddad. x
That is a lovely story and he must have had it bad in the war. All the best.
This just makes me think of the old days long ago when life was peaceful easy & slower, I hear it most nights & it will even wake me up if I’ve dropped off before hand. It also reminds me of my older brother who passed away in 2021 I made him listen to it one night & he couldn’t get over how he’d never heard it before but could then never forget it. Lovely days gone by.
Yes, it is so peaceful and can't but make one nostalgic for better, carefree times when life was simpler.
Fisher, Dogger, German Bight. East South East moderate force 3, backing slowly, increasing force 5 later, occasional showers. It was like a secret code when I heard it as a child but it didn't lose its magic when I came to understand it properly as a sailing instructor 30 years later.
A brilliant lullaby especially if you'll are an insomniac. Makes me want to cry and smile at the same time
Totally understand you.
Yes Pamela, we are all so lucky to live on our beautiful beautiful Island
Just lost my grandad last Saturday. This was his favourite song and we played it to him in his final moments. Rest easy, Kenny.
This tune always makes me think of my dad who loved it. He passed away from cancer three years ago today. RIP Dad, see you around sometime x
😢RIP
beautifully evocative tune. During my stay in Aberdeen for my study long ago I used to listen to Radio 4 all day long to become more familiar with practical English.. some time after the midnight this Sailing by came out to my lonely space which made me cry many times missing mom and brothers in Korea far away.
As a Merchant Navy Officer and H.M.Coastguard Officer of some 40 yrs this beautiful music reminds me of days and nights at sea and ashore, The most calming tune ever composed that either heralded more doom, or deliverance from disaster. Rounding Lands End in a westerly 9 or 10, or worse, on an 800 ton coaster on it's beam ends as a 23 year old mate, picking the signal up off West Africa on the DF (Direction Finding) equipment on Radio 4 in later years on supertankers and bulk carriers, just to hear what was happening in Blighty, or get warning of what was to come, Europe bound, on long wave . Waking early for a long 12 hour winter night or day shift at Liverpool or Oban Coastguard MRSCs knowing there would be unpredictable calls for assistance. ....And knowing the weather that would cause it or affect us. The most evocative melody of all time. My colleagues would say the same.
Played today at my partners funeral, he loved this piece of music as he said it made him feel safe and warm and proud of this tiny island of ours that he loved so much.
I'll always associate "Sailing By" and the shipping forecast with my spells of insomnia when I was unemployed in the early 1980s, and I would sit up writing job applications with occasional breaks when I was struggling to learn to play the melodeon. I established that the tune was in the key of "D".
Awake at 3.12am now listening to this beautiful piece of music thinking of all at sea have a safe trip whatever you are doing
I used to play this to my baby daughter when she was restless...it worked a treat. Such a peaceful melody 🙏🏻
My Great Grandad passed and at his funeral this was his faverite song and it was played for the last time as we said goodbye and he accent to heaven
He’s in a better place 🙏
I have just returned today from a funeral of a friend. The music began the service. He liked to listen to the shipping forecast.
I felt a little down, losing my faith. So I searched my hard drive for old Radio Four stuff, and then I went to look for this on UA-cam. Listening to it and reading the comments fills me with happiness, and I wish I had more thumbs up to give.
If you need a reminder tune to radio 4 at approximately 0043 every day. Better still on Sunday when preceded by Bells on Sunday
***** just an offhand remark!
Derek Horne My gran used to tune in every night while she was around. We played this as her final song as the curtain closed. A very bittersweet, beautiful & haunting melody. I can't listen to it again just yet.
Me and my mate listen to this after we have finished a gig on a Saturday and we are making our long way home.
It's tradition.
This will sound silly, but when I was younger this was basically my "My Parents Aren't Here" music. To explain, I listened to Radio Four when I was a child for a while, and on the nights when my parents were out, and I was being babysat, it was hard for me to get to sleep because my parents were out, so those were the nights when I hear this music.
Until a few years ago, I had forgotten all about it, as I hadn't listened to Radio Four for years (I'm more of a commercial music radio station fan), but I overheard it, of course on Radio Four, and I instantly remembered what the music used to represent to me - I got genuinely emotional hearing it, partly due to how it used to be a sad moment for me (overreacting I know, but I was at the age when your parents going out without you was a bigger deal) and partly because of being reunited with such a beautiful piece of music.
I love it now.
My Grandmother and Grandfather would sit up and listen to this after the shipping forecast of a night. My Grandfather sadly passed away on the 6/04 from cancer and this was played at his Cremation. The very last memory I will ever have of him was accompanied by this beautiful peace of music.
When the last human closes the spaceship door and looks at the final views of earth as they pass on he sould play this song.
what
Amen, amen to that.
or she
Everyone's comments are making me cry!
Yes
I’m 12 years old again listening to an old am wireless under the blankets just after book at bed time and before the midnight news.... 43 years have passed and I’m still doing the same thing..
I must admit, I’m 65, and I’m still doing the same thing too. Keep it up!🤣
I'm listening now relaxing in the early hours, whilst excuse the pun trawling through youtube. 🤗🤗
I have been in both the Army and the Navy. Whenever I am on the other side of the world and I hear this, it makes me think of home. England.
Dorian Dando dont forget Great Britain and Northern Ireland lol
England's there. In your heart.
@@lokaloka75 Yes, but that will be gone soon.
Just Great
this tune saved my sanity when i was in hospital recovering from heart surgery and was suffering from post traumatic stress after a bad time in post opp it was the one thing got me through the night terrors
jimjim65651 gosh you poor thing! Bless you!
This is beautiful . Being tucked up in bed and the rain at the window pane . So romantic . Thinking of the ships at sea off to far away places . Lovely comments too !
Like, in a caravan?
This is beautiful, and so relaxing, especially at bedtime.
My wife and I have listened to it at bedtime for years.
My dear long past Nan, born in 1916... started singing to this as she came upstairs on her stair lift bless her. I said, "Nan, I've never knew there were words to this !" Happy and sad memories.
It's lovely to read some of the stories people have left here. It's very inspiring and moving for me to read how music on this playlist has affected each of you. Especially when you have felt strongly enough to comment on it, as I am now.
Even if, like me, you blame a lot of the nonsense in modern life on the internet, you cannot deny that this corner of UA-cam is really great for the soul.
I'm here to learn english but actually, yes.. You tube is smth good the new online era has brought to the people.
Thank you for this. My dad requested this song be played at the end of his funeral, which was held in August. It's a mark of the man that it seems to be a very appropriate, yet at the same time quite bizarre choice. I have to admit that, at the end of a long and stressful day I'll pop onto UA-cam and have a quick listen to this video. Haven't quite got to the point where I can make it through a listen without a tear in my eye but it's a great comfort to know it's only a few clicks away.
This was one of my mums most favourite music .....always in my heart, my mum, my best friend x
Do you know how many times i visit here to listen to this beauty, at 56 years of age i find so much solace and inner peace when i hear this.
Best YT comment thread I've read in Ages..! Made me smile: with pleasure at some comments, in sympathy with others... no 'nasties', no sniping, just people who may be very different in 'real life' recounting their memories, finding solace or even joy, in a shared experience...
(Thinking about this thread, with its notable lack of arguments/nastiness that I'm so used to seeing at YT: perhaps there's something to be said for my theory that difficulties in life such as insomnia or loneliness, can actually have a benefit: to help make one a nicer person, more empathetic and tolerant of others' differences... of the foibles & faults, we All have, in some way or other...?)
(And I wish a sound & restful sleep to everyone out there, reading this late in the night...)
I'm 29 and I've always found listening to this very peaceful.
Have a listen to The Elizabethan Serenade.....another masterpiece. Best Wishes to you.
This little night community of people who are lonely or ill or sad (or maybe just insomniacs !) make me feel there are friends out there , especially when the wind howls and the seas are rough as they have been recently. Do any other sad insomniacs like me send themselves to sleep learning the shipping stations off by heart ?
Viking, North Utsire, South Utsire..
Silly (sic) Automatic!
+Matthew Sutcliffe Makes me feel very sad hearing this for some reason and yet I get drawn to it every time. I miss my kids so much when I hear it...they are with the ex of course. sigh...
this is the happiest music i know , at 12.45 when all sensible people should be asleep, and when indeed I have actually been asleep once already this gorgeous melody fills my mind with dancing droplets of light flickering up from the surface of dimpled water. It is so lush, so rich, so joyeous and now I can imagine a small army of people clutching mugs of cocoa , leaning on kitchen worktops all floating away, it makes even the shipping forecast sound faintly romantic . I shall request this to be played at my funeral, along with Bob Marley .
+Betty Dye I tried sensible once: it wasn't for me.
Just playing this in memory of my dear Dad, Ken who sadly died 7 years ago today and loved listening to this piece. We played it at his funeral and it brings a tear to my eye but happy memories come flooding back.
RIP
Very dignified send off. My own father not is not well either.
Jo Bennett We also used this as a final song, for my grandma. Beautiful choice.
Lovely I love it so pease full and calm you Brighton the light you go who ever you are to me it's night so calming when people who are made they tipe up this the calm stright away from the madness thank you
It was also the funeral music for my father, Dick Titmus, who died December 2016, and who loved boats and the sea. He sailed as often as he could, and I have no doubt that he, like so many others on this page, listened to the shipping forecasts and shared the pleasure of this iconic piece.
My mum used to sleep listening to the BBC radio. When I climbed in beside her to cuddle up during the night, I often remember this song. I would wake up just long enough to listen but I was still sleepy enough to feel completely and utterly relaxed. I would just listen and then fall asleep again. Wonderful.
I'm an American but I adore this 💜 So peaceful and soothing. Just like the shipping forecast.
Berlin Saint Clair a
I'm also an American who enjoys the song and will listen to the Shipping Forecast on BBC Sounds before bed. It is truly the British lullaby.
This was my dear friends favourite tune. They played it at his funeral. He passed away on my birthday. I play it on my birthday ever year in his memory. If a tune could represent someone’s soul, this does. Beautiful music.
Just about the most relaxing piece of music ever composed. Its an interesting thought that this music / forecast is often being received by sailors in a force ten gale, while us landlubbers lie in our warm beds and think 'thank the Lord its not us out there'
When in agony for 6 months, before my cancer op, it was source of great comfort; now I'm feeling better, it is still wonderful to hear it!
I lost my mum several months ago, and this is the music I most fondly associate her with.
I'd often stay over late on Sunday evenings when visiting her, and this would always be on the radio, to remind me how late it had gotten.
We'd always listen to the weather around the UK that proceeded this, followed by the shipping forecast.
It had become an accidental ritual most every week to listen to this, so that's just what happened.
This music is extremely important to me now.
RIP Mummy.
Sorry for your loss.
@@Mizzmeownow thanks so much for your kind words :)
Just this Sunday gone, I had very important cause to listen to it again - don't wish to doxx myself, but your reply was VERY fortuitously timed.
For a yachtsman, especially when at sea at night who is wrapped up snuggly in his bunk after a tiringly hard watch but still keeping awake to hear the all important shipping forecast, there is no other music that can come anywhere near to the wonderful feeling and aura of contentment, belonging. peace and tranquillity that this particular piece of superb music evokes. Brings back absolutely wonderful memories even for one who thinks he has seen it all..
UKExpat
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But the soothing music is often followed by very worrying weather forecasts.
Is it true that due to advanced technology including satellite internet, the shipping forecast is not actually needed and hasn't been for decades? I'm not knocking it, just wondering how important it actually is these days.
Lovely comment. I could transport myself to that bunk & feel the water rocking the boat. Thank you for sharing 🤍
I was in Newfoundland Canada once and pulled in Radio 4 on longwave and heard tge shipping forcast. I was impressed considering it was 2,000 miles east.
Philip Mclaughlin That's quite impressive! I gather it's a rare event when you can receive Radio 4 on longwave from Newfoundland?
Eric Norton Well considering the coast of Nothern Ireland is just over 2,000 miles east yes it is 😃
@@philipmclaughlin9636 when I turn my speakers to mute, they start picking up various longwave radio signals from far-off places. It's pretty cool, if a little sinister.
Rule Britannia, that`s why! (If we can`t rule the sea by god we will the air waves)
Might this be the greatest piece of music? Just before the shipping report on BBC Radio 4. Complete bliss.
I have loved this piece of music all my life; I am 83 and yes I shall request it for my funeral! My Dad was in the Royal Navy during the war and I love being on the sea as much as he did.
A fine piece of music when your going to a better place 🙏
Spent many a night listening to this wonderful music when reading for a PhD in my home town of Brighton; best wishes to all who love this piece of music as much as I do!
When I was at Bristol Uni, I stayed with friends. I always listened to this, just before going to sleep.
When I was a student in the UK in the 1980s, I would listen to Radio 4 playing this tune at its closing moment. This music lives with me ever since. Many thanks for sharing.
in the early 2000's, sitting in my chair by the fire and the atlantic storms battering my window, halfway up a welsh mountain.
because FM is rubbish in Wales, i always listened to Long Wave and so i got all the distortions as well.
looking back, those were the times i felt most alive.
I still feel I’m too young to be listening to Sailing By, as not too many 30-39 year olds really listen to The Shipping Forecast - issued by The Met Office on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency at Double 0 1-5 on x date. I’m one of those people though who couldn’t sleep one evening, came across it one night by mistake and it helped so much in easing me off to sleep and just allowing me to float off to a far flung place and provide some escapism for a few minutes. Don’t get me wrong, I know the forecast isn’t for me as I won’t be travelling to Bay of Biscay anytime soon, but hearing the forecast is always relaxing, good, occasionally moderate. Can’t help but echo a lot of people’s sentiments that this is a very special piece of music, that evokes a lot of emotion, imagery and feeling. With life running at such a pace these days, it would be a crying shame if the BBC ever did away with Sailing By, for exactly these reasons. 🚢 🌧 💨 ☀️
Being in cosy bed with my partner we loved this , He has passed on to a better place . Don’t take for granted the good people beside you because when there gone it’s hard to replace them .
I know.😥 My partner passed away in 2017 and there's no one could take her place. Pure beauty.
I’m sorry for your loss ❤
I was a sailor for sixteen years. This makes me think of those fine times I spent at sea. And all my mates.
I remember this tune so well. I was a fan of Long wave and Short wave radiostations around the world. I listened quite often to the shipping forecast on Radio 4, wondering how it was to be on the high seas during a storm... or to be in a lighthouse at the Scottish coast during a northwestern gale (while listening to my old radio in bed). I must heve been around 16, 17 years old, in the late 70's and I lived in the east of the Netherlands, when I first heared Sailing By on BBC Radio Four. This is one of the melodies I'll never forget. Thanks for posting this lovely tune! Youth sentiments for me! Greetz Jan Simmes, Deventer, The Netherlands.
Driving home singing along lala with this with my lovely wife, now passed away. Happy days.
I have heard this piece of music for decades and it invokes so many memories from my childhood right through to the present day. Not sleeping as a child in Gibraltar to trying to get my own children off to sleep. Many late nights working sat in a car waiting for people. Rolling along the motorways of Europe and UK on nights as a lorry driver. It always makes me smile.
Just heard this lovely piece played at the funeral of a friend who was special. In loving and affectionate memory of Alex, who now wears the crown of life.
In 1955 I was in an isolation ward in Bolton with suspected polio and each day I awoke to the shipping forecast followed by the fat-stock prices. (I was 7 years old) I still love to hear the music played but I don't bother to listen to all the forecast even tho' I live by the coast now. Julie Winrow
I regularly tune into "sailing by" here in New Zealand, it so reminds me of home in the UK. Radio 4 is my favourite BBC radio programme.
Fisher, Dogger, German Bight, 1046 Rising Perfectly! The best sound on this ocean. Thank You Ronald.
I can see the waves, feel the wind in my face, taste the salty air. This piece of music embodies everything I love. When my days end, my ashes will take to the currents and I will forever sail by... :)
I love this piece, as an architecture student working late into the night this always marked the end of my day.
My wife and I regularly wait for this to play before going to sleep. Trully comforting.
This is a piece of music that I will carry in my heart forever. My husband and I used to listen to the Shipping at midnight when they played this while we were on the boat, usually at anchor for the night. I still listen to the Shipping forecast every single day . I imagine it can bring people together spiritually, from whatever corner of the world they may be in. No other piece of music could go with the Shipping . It's beautiful. Thank you Ronald Binge.
Alf loves this
We are on nights at the fire station,and l have just secured the station, when from the Station Officers room can this melody. My Station Officer was war time ex navy, and always listened to this. Happy times!!!
As a sea angler, when sat alone at night on a stormy beach watching dancing rod tips, with weighted bait struggling to hold bottom in the big-sea, the wind blowing a hooley and driving rain battering everything, it's hard not to think sobering thoughts of those out there on boats and ships for whom this beautifully calming music means so very much.
What lovely comments here, and yes I feel we are a little community of night owls listening to this iconic and so soothing piece of music. The weird thing is, I never tire of it.
And like many others, in a warm bed, thinking of sailors and seafarers out there in all sorts of weather. I love all the names of the shipping areas as we progress around the British Isles.
Everyone keep safe
can't sleep til I've heard this.
Hilary Hilary its so soothing music
Thank you for making this available on UA-cam. It has to be one of the sweetest, most gentle tunes I’ve ever had the pleasure of hearing.
It's fantastic. It brings back fond memories
Love it all and the Shipping Forecast, Now 69, it has been a great part of my great life.
Tim Ternet &
But I bet you never noticed the double-bass player screw up at 1'54" :D
BBC radio 4 and world service helped me to reduce the use of internet significantly.
Oh!!! Those good old days when the pocket radio slept with me ending my day with Sailing By and starting the day with the Radio 4 UK Theme... :-)
Mum's favourite tune in her latter years & she played it on Piano too... miss you mum! x
I heard this driving home on NPR yesterday, and again today like Shantanu Das. It is so pretty and and relaxing. Thank you again NPR for expanding my knowledge of the world.
In the 70s as a kid all my holidays were on an old gaff cutter sailing on the East Coast rivers. This would come on the radio as we waited for the shipping forecast for the next day laying in our bunks...memories of Butler Creek, Potten Island, Iken Cliff, Ramsholt and Wrabness...
I love listening to this in bed, but does anyone else get really annoyed if they have run out of time and only play the last bit. I hate being short-changed!
Karen Illingworth lam With you there when we are short changed
Yes
It is because the plays before it are a bit open ended
I'm in the US and will often play the Forecast when trying to fall asleep. Unfortunately, BBC doesn't usually put the song in the Sounds function. If you want to hear it outside the UK and Ireland, you have to play it live on Sounds.
I grew up in the Canadian coastal city of Halifax. I remember the CBC (Canada's equivalent of the BBC) would have a shipping forecast late in the evening, except they would introduce it with "Life on the Ocean Waves!" Not the piece to put you to sleep!
Normally only listen to this when I'm trying to "Hang on " to the weekend and don't want Monday to come.. . .Cos I've had a week off work. . . .
Beautiful melody
Mind you, its good that the BBC has held onto something as so much has changed over the years in television,radio and broadcasting in general. I think the shipping forecast and this gentle lullaby have formed somewhat of an identity for BBC Radio. And I am all for that! I mean I am 40 - so not that old but I can remember in our old hose when I was about 6/7/8/9 years old my mum upstairs of the top floor of the house using her sewing machine and I could hear this tune floating downstairs. Happy!
this is a charming piece of music so peaceful and tranquil.
My favourite piece of music ever it reminds me of
My grandad and days gone by, fills my eyes so it does. This is my funeral music.. it just fills my heart with nostalgic happiness.
This, and the one they played in the morning - around Britain - is wonderful! Never, ever stop it!!!
I remember this sitting on a rock having a few drinks on the Isles of Scilly. I'm a Scotsman who had good times out at sea and in Cornwall.
A magical tune. That magic becomes even stronger when it's played on Longwave.
And here's the shipping forecast
This soothes me in the US as well. Although we listen to recordings of the earlier broadcasts.
One thousand and twenty, rising slowly.
Losing its identity
Good.
@@jjdecani occasionally moderate
@@tomw6458 Southwest backing Southeast
Imminent.