What is the name of the tune composed by Ronald Binge used by Radio 4 every evening before the last Shipping Forecast Bulletin?
"released as a single on Monday, 27 March, also featuring Ronald Binge's ""Sailing By"", the BBC Radio 4 late night Shipping Forecast theme. The original manuscript was restored by the notable light music composer Ernest Tomlinson after it was discovered in the loft of Ingrid Spiegl's house. The executive producers of the single were Mike Flowers, who had previously had an unexpected hit with his arrangement of Oasis's ""Wonderwall"", and Liverpool-based conference organiser Simon Roxborough. During the first week of its release, it charted at number 15 in the Woolworths Singles Chart. On Sunday, 2 April 2006, the single entered"
"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"
"been used including a ""Dale Warning"" to warn where Dale Winton could be found over the coming period, and a spoof in which sailors are warned of ghostly galleons and other nightmarish apparitions. Stephen Fry, in his 1988 radio programme ""Saturday Night Fry"", issued the following ""Shipping Forecast"" in the first episode of the programme: The BBC Radio 4 monologue sketch show ""One"" features a number of Shipping Forecast parodies, written by David Quantick and Daniel Maier, such as the following, originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday 21 February 2008: In an episode of BBC Radio 4 series"
"warning the Met Office will indicate when it expects the gale to occur. ""Imminent"" means that a gale is expected within 6 hours, ""expected soon"" that a gale is expected within 6 to 12 hours and ""later"" in more than 12 hours' time. The Shipping Forecast is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 because its longwave signal can be received clearly at sea all around the British Isles regardless of time of day or radio conditions. For the same reason, the Shipping Forecast was broadcast in the BBC National Programme until September 1939, and then after the Second World War on"
"party early, explaining that they must get back to listen to the Shipping Forecast. Paul asks why, seeing as they have never owned a boat. Howard explains, ""Well, it takes us nicely into the news."" Mentioned briefly in the film ""Kes"" (see ""Art and Literature"" section above). A recording of part of the forecast is played over the opening and closing credits of Rick Stein's 2000 TV series ""Rick Stein's Seafood Lover's Guide"". In an episode of the Channel 4 television series ""Black Books"", the character Fran Katzenjammer listens to the shipping forecast because a friend from her college is"
"radio transmission for areas around Great Britain. This service was discontinued during and following the First World War, between 1914 and June 1921, and again during the Second World War between 1939 and 1945. Today, although most ships have onboard technology to provide the Forecast's information, they still use it to check their data. On Friday 30 May 2014, for the first time in more than 90 years, BBC Radio 4 failed to broadcast the Shipping Forecast at 0520. Staff at Broadcasting House were reading out the report but it was not transmitted. Listeners instead heard BBC World Service. 24"
"six reels of rushes remain, including scenes of Hall rehearsing songs such as ""The Gospel Train"" and ""Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"". Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album ""101 Gang Songs"" (1961). The last verse from ""Be in Time"" is: The last verse of ""The Warning"" is: ""The Gospel Railroad"" is another one of the early ""Gospel Train"" songs from Britain. Written sometime before 1867, its last verse is: The Gospel Train ""The Gospel Train (Get on Board)"" is a traditional African-American spiritual first published in 1872 as one of the songs of the Fisk Jubilee"
"Television, Robert Farnon's ""Derby Day"" for Radiotelevisão Portuguesa, Richard Addinsell's ""Southern Rhapsody"" for Southern Television, Ron Goodwin's ""Westward Ho!"" for Westward Television and John Dankworth's ""Widespread World"" for Rediffusion London. Several pieces of light music are used on BBC Radio 4 to the present day, with Eric Coates's ""By the Sleepy Lagoon"" being the theme of ""Desert Island Discs"", Arthur Wood's ""Barwick Green"" the theme of ""The Archers"" and Ronald Binge's ""Sailing By"" preceding the late-night shipping forecast. During the 1960s, the style began to fall out of fashion on radio and television, forcing many light composers to refocus their"
"of the Shipping Forecast as ""a bedtime story for grown-ups"". The Shipping Forecast is published online by the Met Office and the BBC. The daily 0048 forecast is available online via BBC iPlayer. In 2009, an unofficial Twitter feed was created, but it has not been updated since November 2014. Shipping Forecast The Shipping Forecast is a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the coasts of the British Isles. It is produced by the Met Office and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The forecasts sent over"
"reading it. She finds his voice arousing. In the BBC sitcom ""As Time Goes By"", the character Mrs Bale is obsessed by and constantly mentions The Shipping Forecast much to the befuddlement of the other characters. Many characters in the 1983 children's cartoon, ""The Adventures of Portland Bill"" are named after features mentioned in the Shipping Forecast. In Funcom's massively multiplayer online role-playing game ""The Secret World"", the shipping forecast plays over the radio in a London Underground station, adding to the British flavour distinguishing the setting from other worldwide locations featured in the game. A number of minor characters"
"Radio 4 UK Theme The BBC Radio 4 UK Theme is an orchestral arrangement of traditional British and Irish airs compiled by Fritz Spiegl and arranged by Manfred Arlan. It was played every morning on BBC Radio 4 between 23 November 1978 and 23 April 2006. The piece was used as the signature theme to introduce the daily beginning of Radio 4's broadcasting following the early morning handover from the BBC World Service. The theme was immediately followed by the Shipping Forecast. In 2006, the decision by Mark Damazer (Controller of Radio 4 at the time) to drop the Radio"
"Ben. Radio 4 broadcasts the Shipping Forecast, which reached 150 years old in August 2017. The pips are only accurate on FM, LW & MW as there is a delay on DAB and digital radio of approximately 3 to 5 seconds, even longer online (up to 23 seconds). BBC Radio 4 is the second most popular British domestic radio station by total hours, after Radio 2 – and the most popular in London and the South of England. It recorded its highest audience, of 11 million listeners, in May 2011 and was ""UK Radio Station of the Year"" at the"
"from that package are being used for the local forecasts, with a fourth being used during the segments when the channel's ""Red Alert"" mode (which replaced the ""Storm Alert"" mode in 2012) is ongoing, which also suspends all music during very frequent weather situations. It also used vocal music from February to May 2014 along with the music package. In September 2014, a new song was added to the package; with seven more songs added in November 2014. The channel returned Christmas songs in December 2014. Smooth jazz music returned in 2016 on pre-determined days, usually four or five days"
"Shipping Forecast The Shipping Forecast is a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the coasts of the British Isles. It is produced by the Met Office and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The forecasts sent over the Navtex system use a similar format and the same sea areas. The waters around the British Isles are divided into 31 sea areas, also known as weather areas (see map below). There are four broadcasts per day at the following (UK local) times: The unique and distinctive presentation style"
"of these broadcasts has led to their attracting an audience much wider than that directly interested in maritime weather conditions. In August 2017, Radio 4 celebrated the service's 150th anniversary. In October 1859, the steam clipper ""Royal Charter"" was wrecked in a strong storm off Anglesey; 450 people lost their lives. Due to this loss, Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy introduced a warning service for shipping in February 1861, using telegraph communications. This remained the United Kingdom's Met Office primary responsibility for some time afterwards. In 1911, the Met Office began issuing marine weather forecasts which included gale and storm warnings via"
"The Riverboat Song ""The Riverboat Song"" is a rock song by Ocean Colour Scene. The song is heavily influenced by Led Zeppelin's ""Four Sticks"", from which it takes its main riff and a number of lyrics. The song is notable in that it is in 6/8 swing time, like Led Zeppelin's ""Four Sticks"", and not the more common 4/4 time normally used in rock music. The song was popularised by Radio 1 DJ Chris Evans, who played it frequently on his radio shows and to introduce guests on his television programme ""TFI Friday"". As a result, having been released in"
"of the song was used in the opening titles of the Channel 4 situation comedy ""Captain Butler""; minor variations to the words (in spoken form) were added, notably by the series' lead actor Craig Charles. A Royal Navy ship ""Venus"" is the setting of the film ""Carry On Jack"". Good Ship Venus ""Good Ship Venus"", also known as ""Friggin' in the Riggin'"", is a bawdy drinking song devised to shock with ever increasingly lewd and debauched sexual descriptions of the eponymous ship's loose-moraled crew. The tune usually used (especially for the chorus) is ""In and Out the Windows"". The lyrics"
"BBC One and BBC Two. His was the first voice of BBC Four when the digital channel launched in March 2002 and was the channel's sole announcer for the first ten months. He left BBC television altogether in February 2003 and took up a position with BBC Radio 4 on 9 February 2003. In 2001, he began reading the Shipping Forecast, a weather report for the seas around the British Isles, which is broadcast four times a day on BBC Radio 4. For the 2008 Beijing Olympics he was asked to read the shipping forecast to a worldwide audience of"
"during the Roman occupation and then was to become an important building stone in the late Saxon period. It's quarrying continued after the Norman conquest and was still being used until the early 19th century. The quarrying finally ceased after an Admiralty prohibition order in 1827. The Meteorological office issues Shipping Forecasts and they are read out on BBC Radio 4, four times a day. It gives a summary of gale warnings in force, a general synopsis and area forecasts for specified sea areas around the UK. In addition, some bulletins include a forecast for all UK inshore waters, as"
"(the theme for Cadbury's Milk Tray adverts). He also composed ""Best Endeavours"", which has been the theme for Channel 4 News since 1982, and was used for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's ""The National"" news and current affairs programme from 1984 to 1987. His tune ""Chicken Man"" was used as the theme for ""Grange Hill"" from its start in 1978 until 1989, and revived for the final series of Grange Hill in 2008. Another recording of ""Chicken Man"" was used contemporaneously with the original ""Grange Hill"" version for the ITV quiz show ""Give Us A Clue"". The Countdown ""Chimes"" jingle used"
"Edmonds, purser. Departing from Robson, ""Minto"" stopped for the last time at all the small landings on the lake that she had always served. At Syringa Creek the retired postmaster, who had served for 50 years, handed over the mail one last time, then stood on the dock with his hat in his hand as the steamer pulled away. At Edgewood a crowd sang ""Auld Lang Syne"" while across the lake at Fullmore Point Jock Ford played a mournful song on the bagpipes. Captain Manning stopped the engines briefly so passengers could hear the pipes. At Burton the citizens placed"
"available from the BBC. It was recorded by Peter Donaldson, chief continuity announcer for BBC Radio 4: The Cold War and the fear of nuclear attack permeated pop culture up until the 1990s. Examples include the song ""Four Minute Warning"" by the British punk band Chaos UK (EP ""Burning Britain"", 1982), the poem ""Your Attention Please"" by Peter Porter, a solo song by Take That singer, Mark Owen, and ""Four Minutes"" by Roger Waters (of Pink Floyd fame) on his 1987 solo album ""Radio K.A.O.S."". John Paul Jones has a song entitled ""4-Minute Warning"" on the 1988 Brian Eno album"
"at approximately 5:54 am on weekdays (starting from Thursday 23 November 1978), before the first programme of the day (""News Briefing"") began at 6:00 am. At weekends it was played later than this (Saturday programmes in November 1978 starting at 6:30 am and Sunday programmes at 7:15 am). With the extension of the ""Today Programme"" to start at 6:00 am, the Shipping Forecast and the UK Theme with it were broadcast earlier. Towards the end of the ""UK Theme""'s life it was played at 5:30 am every day, when Radio 4 took over from the BBC World Service, which has"
"and short stories. Only one episode of series four – “Deathday” based on the novel by Angus Hall, dramatised by Brian Hayles – was an adaptation; the remaining ten episodes were original works. Series four was broadcast on Wednesday nights beginning 21 April 1971. The new series sported a new title sequence devised by Charles McGhie and a new theme tune - “Lunar Landscape” by Roger Roger (also known as ""Profondeurs""). Both ratings and critical reception were positive, although some viewers were disappointed by the move away from hard science fiction – a typical comment was that of Martin J."
"in the Shipping Forecast, part of the broadcast output of BBC Radio 4. If a considerable time will intervene before the next Shipping Forecast, forecasters may issue an extra gale warning, read between programmes. The Meteorological Office issues warnings for sea areas surrounding the United Kingdom for all predictions of winds of Beaufort scale Force 8 or greater, the forecasts extending as far north as Iceland and as far south as southern Spain. Robert FitzRoy developed the first weather forecasting and storm warning system. On 1st September 1860 weather reports began to be collected at the Meteorological Office in London"
"on a one off simulcast so the shipping forecast – read that night by Laurie Macmillan – could be seen as well as heard. To date, it is the only time that it has been broadcast on television. In addition, a limited shipping forecast was included as part of the closing down routines of the former ITV companies for South West England, Westward Television and latterly Television South West, until the late 1980s. A recording of the shipping forecast can be heard during the closing credits of Rick Stein's food heroes. The Shipping Forecast is immensely popular with the British"
"Minutes to Midnight (song) Minutes to Midnight is the fourth track on the 1984 album ""Red Sails in the Sunset"" by Australian music group Midnight Oil. The song was written by band members Peter Garrett and Jim Moginie. The title and lyrics of the song allude to the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic timepiece published by the ""Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists"", which represents the proximity of nuclear war (or more generally ""catastrophic destruction""), designated as ""midnight"". Nuclear confrontation was pertinent at the time of this song, the clock having regressed to a mere ""three minutes to midnight"" in 1984 from"
"SR P1 : in the case of Radio 4 they have the extra tasks of reading the Shipping Forecasts and gale warnings. Many also serve as newsreaders. In Canada, CBC Television used in-vision announcers to 'host' primetime programming from 2001 to 2006. As the credits rolled, the announcer would describe upcoming episodes of the series, then introduce the next program at the top of the hour. The evening's host changed daily. Usually, the host was appearing in a major upcoming program the same week, giving the appearance that the host is promoting not only the next program in the evening"
"Radio, and briefly reading the news on Newsnight on BBC2. When the BBC chose to feature the midnight Shipping Forecast as part of an evening of programmes devoted to radio on BBC2 in 1993, Laurie MacMillan was the duty announcer on BBC Radio 4 who read the forecast. She died on 8 October 2001 in Okehampton, Devon from breast cancer. Laurie Macmillan Laurie Macmillan (10 May 1947 – 8 October 2001) was a BBC Radio 4 newsreader and continuity announcer born in Aberdeen on the east coast of Scotland. Educated at Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls, Monmouthshire and then at"
"wave: currently ""Test Match Special"", extra shipping forecasts, ""The Daily Service"" and ""Yesterday in Parliament"". Long wave very occasionally opts out at other times, such as to broadcast special services, the most recent being when Pope Benedict XVI visited Britain in 2010. The longwave signal is part of the Royal Navy's system of Last Resort Letters. In the event of a suspected catastrophic attack on Britain, submarine captains, in addition to other checks, check for a broadcast signal from Radio 4 on 198 long wave to verify the annihilation of organised society in Great Britain. An online schedule page lists"
"The Lowestoft Boat ""The Lowestoft Boat"" is a poem written by Rudyard Kipling, and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1917, as the first of a set of four war-related songs on nautical subjects for which he chose the title ""The Fringes of the Fleet"". The song is sub-titled """"A Chanty"""" and, like the others in the cycle, is intended for four baritone voices: a solo and chorus. It was originally written with orchestral accompaniment, but it was later published to be sung with piano accompaniment. Kipling prefaced the poem with the words """"East Coast Patrols"
"With Gary Burton Bob James (musician) Robert McElhiney James (born December 25, 1939) is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer. He founded the band Fourplay and wrote ""Angela,"" the theme song for the TV show ""Taxi. ""He is most famous for standards such as ""Nautilus"", ""Westchester Lady"", ""Heads"", ""Night Crawler"", ""Touchdown"", ""Blue Lick"", ""Sign Of the Times"", ""Spunky"", ""Marco Polo"", ""Courtship"" and ""Just One Thing"". Music from his first seven albums has often been sampled and has contributed to the formation of hip hop. Robert McElhiney James was born on Christmas Day 1939 in Marshall, Missouri"
"is considered a soothing accompaniment to bedtime. The lead singer of the Britpop band Pulp, Jarvis Cocker, chose ""Sailing By"" as one of his ""Desert Island Discs"", saying for many years he had used it ""as an aid to restful sleep"". The BBC issued it as a single in 1973 on its own BBC Records label, played by the John Fox Orchestra. The piece appeared on a single recorded by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia in a quest to save the ""Radio 4 UK Theme"". In 1993 there was a similar reaction by BBC listeners when ""Sailing By"" was temporarily taken"