Shipping Forecast largely autobiographical account of growing up in Liverpool during the 1940s and 1950s, opens with a shipping forecast from this period. In an episode of the BBC sitcom "Keeping Up Appearances", a soon-to-be-sailing Hyacinth Bucket calls over the telephone for an advance shipping forecast, even though the yacht she and her husband Richard are to visit is moored on the Thames near Oxford. Names mentioned (in scene sequence) are: Fisher, German Bight and Cromarty, Dogger and Heligoland (also known as German Bight). In an episode of the BBC sitcom "Ever Decreasing Circles", Howard and Hilda leave their neighbour Paul's house
Songs from the British Isles Songs from the British Isles Songs from the British Isles is a collobrative extended play by Australian singer songwriter Katie Noonan and Australian classical guitarist Karin Schaupp, available only from Katie Noonan webshop. It was released to support the tour 'Songs from the British Isles'. Katie said; "[it's] a chance to rediscover the Celtic music I grew up around, the classical music I fell in love with and the pop music that has informed my voice as a songwriter in more recent years." Karin Schaupp said; “For years we’ve been saying ‘We must do something together one day…’ and finally