SAILING BY

[@Tyinkiaro]

When I was a little child my father was a lighthouse keeper and when he was away on duty I would often listen to Radio 4 late at night for the shipping forecast, it made me feel closer to him and I knew he was safe. By the time I had herd this piece of music I was fast asleep. To this day I still get that pleasant lullaby feeling. Now my own children listen to radio 4. Coincidently I chose a career in the Navy. I often wonder if Ronald Binge had an influence in my decisions.

[@shaunmckenna1923]

It is indeed a beautiful piece :)

[@billbickley2277]

Beautiful Music ............................Bill Bickley uk...

[@alisonnunes2740]

Great music I just love It I am some where else listening to this tune❤😢🎉

[@30annden]

This tune makes me so happy and so nostalgic. It sort of wraps itself around you like a favourite cardigan.

[@Nigel1505]

Wonderful analogy, couldn't have put it better myself.,

[@JamieCrookes]

Beautifully put. I love this song too. If i'm still awake I always look forward to 12:45AM.

[@coskuntoktamis]

@@JamieCrookes LIKE WISE....ME TOO.

[@watchwithmother1]

Played this at my sisters funeral. She loved this piece of music. Happy memories.

[@wardropalma]

brings a tear to my eye, and a lump to my throat, 40 yrs old but can appreciate great, simple music. Reminds me of great past times, great friends and sitting in plastic chairs in pub gardens on barmy hot BRITISH summer days, wishing i could be back there right now....superb

[@samuelsigbeku6985]

Makes me feel nostalgic. I listened to it on Radio 4 every night on the night shift, for about 15 years.

[@jimlagos]

When I bought my first boat I heard this and nearly cried! Ever since this music has been SO important to me. I'm now a pensioner living on my boat in Portugal (not my first boat) It is still so beautiful to me. Times I've been halfway across the Atlantic, struggling to hear the first shipping forecast as I pass the Azores heading for Britain, just before that forecast on long wave, after midnight, I've heard this and felt nearly home! Unless you've been there, it's probably hard to understand.

[@kegalormoon]

jimlagos what a fantastic comment i hope you're still around sailing away !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😊

[@elliscollier7347]

Just discovered this utterly beautiful piece of music. Heartwarming, tearforming, it rises and falls just like a wave on the sea. Peace and tranquility.

[@StuartDavies]

I try to use this to help me sleep, but I stay awake to listen to it. Thanks for uploading it.

[@thedangler1754]

I remember this being played when I was a child when my grandad used to listen to the shipping forecast, takes me back many years to a very happy time.

[@tony13a]

And it never fails to wake me up,may be i'll have this played at my funeral see if it works then.

[@Nigel1505]

Hope so, let me know!!!!

[@uwuvision3211]

Nigel Cross Well if he doesn't, you'll know how it went...

[@Harryvolting]

Tony, are you having a burial at sea? I could see it working there especially I'd you choose a watertight casket. 👍

[@robertmackay7491]

Me too

[@gcole651]

This brings back memories

[@sirrius8]

I work in a hospice and i would love this music to be playing softly as our patients peacefully slip away.

[@jimlagos]

Sailing across the Atlantic towards UK, We searched for this on Long wave Radio 4.Just North of Azores, we found it, after midnight. So uplifting. Wonderful thank you

[@KENSCCY823]

This light music is a God's gift - a masterpiece from Ronald Binge. It descends a mild British culture, though not as glorious as past centuries, but still subtlely invincible by now.

[@malcolmpickering2476]

So many memories come flooding back. Listening to the shipping forecast and thinking of all of those exotic names that the BBC reader was repeating, then in later life at sea depending on that same forecast as a seaman . Now I still listen to it as the inshore forecast is good for quite a distance inland.

[@akaabhayarun]

Stunning, lilting, soul-soothing....what a magical composition by Ronald Binge!!!

[@chrisyip4987]

It's truly serenaded! I used to listen to this whenever I was driving long distance in the UK. Now Daniel Blake has just brought it back to me all the to Hong Kong. Thank You

[@chrisyip4987]

Typo: all the way

[@maryboyle5515]

an absolute beautiful piece of music, sitting here playing it over and over , i must stop,beautiful

[@NybswanseaCoUk]

This was played at my friends funeral Dr. Huw Jones, he was a keen sailor and this piece of music was perfect and moving.

[@cynic150]

All these pieces make me remember the past and make me feel old :-(

[@MikeLacey]

One of my favorite pieces of music. i used to love hearing this in the introduction to the shipping forecast on the radio in my younger days. Thank you for this great post. Best regards. Mike L.

[@Lanzafan1]

I can't get to sleep if I don't listen to this on Radio 4 every night at 12.45. It's so relaxing it got me off sleeping pills! (No, really) Thanks for posting. Nice vid too.

[@Nicky2822]

I heard this on Classic FM on the More Music Breakfast before going to work and it's so calming and very relaxing especially at this time of the morning. I also heard it played on Classic FM late at night too. Has such a good calming effect and so peaceful. :)

[@coskuntoktamis]

I JUST LOVE THIS PIECE OF MUSIC...MY BED TIME MUSIC...

[@elayneyoung1837]

Coskun Toktamis lovely music indeed

[@vishy]

Beautiful piece of music... how many times has this dreamy piece sent me asleep. Thank you for uploading!

[@garyhamilton1981]

The best of the BBC

[@Daniel-ed6cb]

This song reminds me of sleepless nights and also of my summer on the isles of scilly and in Penzance and St ives.The woman I met that summer I will not forget

[@michavietze8953]

Schöne Musik DANKE.

[@JordanITP]

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.

[@GARYINLEEDS]

I like this so much because I can listen to such a wonderful tune, twice whilst watching. Thanks for sharing,shared again.

[@william60485]

A brilliant piece of music

[@51honcho]

Amazon version is only 2min+

[@TheLonga50]

yeah I daniel blake also brought me to this,from up here in geordie land,fantastic true realistic life,we really are tallented up here,billy elliot just another fantastic true life happening,god bless the north east,am a proud mackem

[@bobby1957]

Wow remember hearing this as my dad listened to the shipping forecast at night haven't heard it in years

[@mattyha4]

This is so soothing. I listen to it when my bf is away. Just before the shipping forecast. It makes me feel safe, I can then sleep so well.

[@richardpearce4521]

Boootiful, I love this, in the back of my dads Cortina

[@carolines5696]

trying to find this tune for months sooooooooooo relaxing thank you.

[@RU63N94]

played at my grandmas funeral makes me sad and happy at the same time

[@philipmclaughlin7585]

Now on radio 4 the shipping for cast issued by the met office at 00:15

[@eleanorsopwith9806]

This is comforting when you feel at sea. Even us adults feel like that occasionally

[@gloriahowe454]

Love it - can't play it often enough. Wish I could find a way to download it or buy a copy. Ideas, please.

[@permaveg]

Gloria Howe Go on Amazon and look up Ronald Binge CD's , there's one called 'Orchestral works' by Binge, this is on there and his classic 'Elizabethan serenade'.

[@gloriahowe454]

permaveg Many thanks for the tip - will go to Amazon as soon as I have finished listening to my tonight's "fix".

[@permaveg]

Gloria Howe Your welcome.

[@SidHawklord]

Or you could get ytddownloader for free!

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

You can buy it on CD on one of the BBCs Easy Listening Classics series. The CD has other Ronald Binge compositions as well.

[@richio44]

Lovely and evocative of a gentler time. Thanks for posting.

[@Harryvolting]

Note to self, ask for a tripod for Christmas, love the music of Ronald Binge though..

[@Harryvolting]

Sorry argyll1854, was I too harsh? you could accept it as objective criticism, good job on the music though.

[@TheIanoTube]

If it means anything it gave me a light-hearted chuckle

[@PhilToTheMax]

yes and i fall asleep to it nearly every night...

[@macvatu]

Hi !!. . .Sailing By now goes out at 12.45am every night on BBC Radio 4 preceding the Shipping Forecast. Its likely you heard Sailing By on BBC 1 television broadcast when there were no round-the-clock shows back in the 80s. You might have heard also the BBC announcer asking you: " don't forget to switch off your set ". . . before saying Good Night !!

[@51honcho]

brilliant, love it

[@zakiranderson722]

It got to 2:25 I thought ah ha now what you gonna do! Classic. 😇

[@angelagallagher8136]

I love this!

[@daisy13joyce]

Perfection.

[@PGMEagle]

Surprisingly enough. A cousin of mine lives in St John's in Newfoundland Canada and she tells me depending on the conditions she can receive radio 4 on long wave. Pretty impressive since she's at least 2.500 miles away. So she listens to sailing by at 9:15 pm her time. They are 2 and a half hours behind us.

[@robertlloyd8948]

I wonder if I could have this played at my Funeral

[@alanmorr3635]

It is still played on Radio 4 at 0047 before the Shipping Forecast

[@robertthompson3812]

Alan Morr q

[@kegalormoon]

dad ! love ye forever ( the bay ) oor wee theme tune !

[@Howsaboutthatthen]

Reminds me of staying at my grants. She would fall asleep with the radio on

[@nankygemma]

wonderful music where can i buy it, my man loves it too well done !!

[@danielsantostrombone9778]

Linda música, parece as gaivotas passeando sobre o mar!

[@jodywhelan3554]

Sound Cures, ask Tesla ! ❤❤❤

[@Jagdtoq]

Very relaxing, just what the doctor ordered

[@TheBitterWeed]

@urobu What I could have achieved with a name like "Ronald Binge"..

[@margaretdavies3333]

In loving memory of my Family of Seafarers who would have known these waters well.

[@sohaliatalitha]

must be 1am.....

[@Psyonicwombat]

Loved it but it cut out at the end. grrrr! I was lulling to sleep and the sudden stop woke me. Bugger!

[@itslikehistory]

I moved to a new job as a housekeeper. My boss has R4 on all night. The first night I heard this coming from his room, I thought I was imagining it. Every night, it terrifies me.

[@philjamieson5572]

He was a great English composer.

[@조재원-z9j]

GOOD music

[@davedude2040]

How long have they been playing this on radio 4 before/after the shipping forecast? It's grown on me.

[@BagofSpite]

A wonderful, nostalgic piece of music. As already implied, and certainly true for me, simplicity is the the purest (and the most difficult to competantly achieve) form of art, in any form. Just a shame the video made me feel seasick.

[@suelangmead425]

love this

[@NilSatis1983]

@twizzlemonkey I agree totally I only ever heard it half drunk or half asleep, its ace

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

Written by Ronald Binge who also wrote what was later called “Elizabethan Serenade”

[@gordonl]

Wonderful music, tedious visuals.

[@glencooper5647]

just perfect

[@PGMEagle]

Who composed this It's got to be atleast from the early 80s

[@godsbrotherinlaw]

totally do the same thing love it

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

The BBC plays this during the mariners’ traditional “radio silence” listening-In period which ends at 00.48hrs.

[@slightlymooshed]

no its played after the shipping forecast which is usually on at about 00:45, bit late for most tho obviously not to late fisher men....

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

You might expect such a simple piece of music to be come monotonous after a while but it does not happen with Sailing By.

[@TheBitterWeed]

Perfik.

[@mp2lon]

If there's an afterlife, this is what I suspect (and hope) will be playing in the waiting room when we die.

[@thomasmaguire1264]

yeh its beautiful

[@DonDonP1]

"Sailing By" is played before BBC Radio 4's late night shipping forecast. After that late night shipping forcast, BBC Radio 4 ends its broadcast day with the playing of your national anthem "God Save the Queen". Self-explanatory, eh?

[@jodywhelan3554]

Oh My God..

[@mattcol99]

The soothing music doesnt quite go with the image of those people perched on the edge of the boat, trying to stop it capsizing in a force 5!

[@cryingonion2]

You can download it free on Frostwire

[@harebellish]

this be me...lost at sea

[@catshaveteats]

Me too :D

[@vietgrove]

Oh man, you cut off the little bit at the end of the tune, and that's the best bit!

[@mally1320]

hi got this on a mp3 if anyone wants it

[@BillyKirbyUK]

yes please

[@TheMimifur]

Where is Charlotte Green

[@BARNEYLOUGHREY]

Beautiful beautiful tune. Listen to my lyrics and tell me what you think.THANKS FOR POST

[@19Tharg76]

crazy frog ringtones

[@paulboddele3305]

I, Daniel Blake, demand my appeal date before I starve. And change the shit music on the phones !

[@TheGreylag6]

before the forecast moose

[@TheBitterWeed]

@mattyha4 Aw, same as when my gf is away...

[@TheBitterWeed]

@mp2lon Force Ten... xxx

[@TheGreylag6]

i would too being an ex fisherman

[@Zappaiti]

It obviously doesn't pull quite the same heart5 strings for this antipodean )-: Nice - I'm sure, but ZZzzzzzzzzzzz

[@matmixx]

Dead Tv !

[@norib8647]

lol