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
Shipping Forecast in Jasper Fforde's debut novel "The Eyre Affair" are named after Sea Areas in the shipping forecast. Charlie Connelly's 2004 book "Attention All Shipping" (Little Brown: ) describes a project to visit every sea area with any land, and to travel by air or sea over the others. For his project ""The Shipping Forecast - an Artist's Journey", which began in 2015, Troon-based artist Ian Rawnsley plans to travel by sea through each of the sea areas and create a painting inspired by each, to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support. In March 2017, Peter Jefferson recorded a reinvented version