episode "Napoleon's Piano" (first broadcast October 1955), Bluebottle lands on the piano as it is floating in the English Channel, and cements a brass plate to it in the belief that it is Rockall. Rockall was the launching site for the prototype "Jet propelled guided NAAFI" in the Goon Show episode of the same name (January 1956). It has been suggested by several critics that Rockall is the rock which forms the setting for William Golding's 1956 novel Pincher Martin. The Master, a 1957 novel by T. H. White, is set inside Rockall. David Frost, when hosting the 1962-1963 BBC satirical TV programme That Was the Week That Was, recited a list of the dwindling British colonial possessions, ending with the words, "... and sweet Rockall." Storm Over Rockall was a 1965 novel by W. Howard Baker, part of a series of novels based on the espionage television series Danger Man. The Icelandic instrumental jazz-funk fusion band Mezzoforte's track Rockall was a minor hit in Europe in 1983 and was used as a signature tune by several European radio chart shows. The Irish folk group The Wolfe Tones made Rockall the subject of their 1976 song "Rock on, Rockall" which asserted an Irish claim to the island. "Ether", the opening track of the English post-punk band Gang of Four's 1979 debut album, Entertainment!, features the satirical line "There may be oil under Rockall". The bulk of the song deals with the then-ongoing Troubles in Northern Ireland and is critical of British actions there; the line alludes anticlimactically to the dispute between Ireland and the UK over Rockall. A club, "The Rockall Club", has been established for people who have landed there. In series 2, episode 2 of the television series The Ambassador, "Vacant Possession" (first broadcast 25 Apr 1999), an Irish protestor lands on Rockall and claims it for his nation, sparking a diplomatic row. BBC Choice broadcast two series of a topical panel show titled Good Evening Rockall in which panellists put forward events to be included in a news bulletin ostensibly targeting the island. Sue Perkins hosted the second series. The duo and solo project of Runrig songwriters Calum and Rory Macdonald is called The Band from Rockall. See also List of islands of Scotland List of outlying islands of Scotland Seán Dublin Bay Rockall Loftus Shipping Forecast References Notes Bibliography Coates, Richard (1990) The place-names of St