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Just Googled "BBC shipping forecast" and saw a number of youtubes on it... one had a map of each of the grid polygons, each named by the reader. THAT is where the names come from. German Bight, Forth, Finisterre, Hebrides, Tyne, etc.

They then talk about seas in meters, and often barometric pressures, I assume in mb.

The music is spooky and cool. It must be something well known. Violins doing an up and down tempo di valse melody with a sort of descant of flute arpeggios above them, which I guess are summoning breaking waves, whitecaps, foam, whatever. Very cool intro/outro music.

I listen on the SDR of University of Twente's Ham Radio Club, at

websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/

So, in essence, I am listening in real time, to a LW AM radio attached to an antenna in the Netherlands. I get their midnight shipping forecast at about 1900 Tampa time, or 2000 during the summer.

Enjoy the good parts of the BBC, but am saddened by their doctrinaire socialist Kool-Aid drinking news staff.

Do love hearing "The Queen" play at 0000 Z.