Shipping Forecast: "Only Connect" Quiz Show question

On a recent trip to North Yorkshire coast, I spotted this Shipping Forecast Compass Rose on the promenade at Filey, and it reminded me of a few things to do with the shipping forecast. So, here is a possible contender for a question on the "Only Connect" quiz show (or any other quiz for that matter):

What connects the following: BBC Radio 4's Shipping Forecast, a 1980's children's programme and a song by Blur?

They all reference the names given to the defined areas in the waters surrounding the British Isles, which are used by the Met Office and the Maritime & Coastguard Agency.  The BBC's Shipping Forecast provides weather reports and forecasts for these areas and the distinctive sound of these broadcasts can be soothing with their hypnotic repetition of the sea areas.

Indeed, in his autobiography, A Bit Of A Blur, bassist Alex James revealed that when Blur were on tour in America they would listen to the Shipping Forecast on the BBC World Service to remind themselves of home.  During the recording of the Parklife album, Damon Albarn was struggling to come up with some lyrics for an instrumental piece which had been written by Graham Coxon.  Alex James had given a Damon Albarn for Christmas a handkerchief with a map of the shipping forecast regions on it.  This served as inspiration for the instrumental piece which was to become "This is a low" which name-checked a number of the sea areas of the shipping forecast: Biscay, Tyne, Forth, Cromarty, Dogger, Forties, Malin, Thames.

Which brings me to my favourite children's cartoon from the 1980's - The Adventures of Portland Bill - which I loved at the time - and not in an ironic sort of way.    The show centered around the lives of a lighthouse keeper, Portland Bill, who lived on a lighthouse island with his assistants and his dog.  All of the characters, animals and places featured were named after the sea areas or other UK coastal features: there was Portland Bill, the lighthouse keeper;  his assistants, Ross and Cromarty; and, of course, his dog: Dogger.

On the mainland there was Eddy Stone who owned the village shop, named after Eddystone; two sheep  called Flotsam and Jetsam, a bull named Boulmer.  Other characters in the village were Fastnet the fisherman, Mrs. Lundy, Grandma Tiree, Inspector Ronaldsway (belongs to the lighthouse service, not a police officer), Finisterre, and Young Gail lives in McGuillycuddy.  Fantastic!

.....an another connection.  If you to play Led Zeppelin's Over The Hills and Far Away really badly - it sounds a bit like the theme tune to Portland Bill.