24. A NEW VIEW OF POLITICS Delia Derbyshire 0:39

25. ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Delia Derbyshire 0:29

26. CHRONICLE Delia Derbyshire 0:20

27. GREAT ZOOS OF THE WORLD Delia Derbyshire 0:34

28. MINDS OF EVIL Dudley Simpson / Cop. Con* 0:42

29. FANFARE Dick Mills 0:20

30. BROKEN BISCUIT CLUB Paddy Kingsland 0:38

31. THE PLUNDERERS Roger Limb 1:14

32. MYSTERIOSO (“Blake’s Seven”) Richard Yeoman-Clark 1:08

33. GREENWICH CHORUS Peter Howell 2:17

34. HURDY GURDY Malcolm Clarke 1:29

35. MARTIAN MARCH PAST Dick Mills 0:30

36. A WHISPER FROM SPACE Paddy Kingsland 2:11

37. SWIRLEY Roger Limb 1:50

38. MERRY-GO-ROUND Peter Howell 0:20

39. BBC-2 SERIAL Malcolm Clarke 0:45

40. QUIRKY Roger Limb 1:30

41. NEWTON Paddy Kingsland 1:06

42. THE SECRET WAR Peter Howell 0:52

43. THOMAS THE RHYMER Dick Mills 1:15

44. CONTACT Malcolm Clarke 0:25

45. FOR LOVE OR MONEY Roger Limb 1:08

BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP 21 YEARS

01. QUATERMASS AND THE PIT Desmond Briscoe 0:37

02. BLOODNOCK’S STOMACH Dick Mills / Jimmy Burnett 0:10

03. OUTSIDE Desmond Briscoe 0:36

04. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY Phil Young 0:27

05. THE ARTIST SPEAKS Phil Young 1:27

06. THE SPLENDOUR THAT WAS ROME Phil Young 0:30

07. INTERVAL SIGNAL Maddalena Fagandini 1:38

08. PHRA THE PHOENICIAN Desmond Briscoe 0:50

09. STICK UP Desmond Briscoe 0:49

10. TIME BEAT Maddalena Fagandini 0:30

11. IDEAL HOME EXHIBITION Maddalena Fagandini 1:03

12. TIME ON OUR HANDS Delia Derbyshire 1:10

13. ARABIC SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY Delia Derbyshire 0:22

14. THE CHEM LAB MYSTERY Maddalena Fagandini 0:50

15. KNOW YOUR CAR Delia Derbyshire / Maurice Abrahams 0:57

16. DR. WHO Delia Derbyshire / Ron Grainer 1:30

17. TARDIS Brian Hodgson 1:13

18. CHOICE John Baker 0:36

19. HARDLUCK HALL John Baker 0:32

20. TALK OUT Delia Derbyshire 0:25

21. SCIENCE AND HEALTH (“MIKE’S CHOICE”) Delia Derbyshire 0:55

22. SECRETS OF THE CHASM Tony Askew 1:07

23. WESTMINSTER AT WORK Keith Salmon 0:26

Compiled by Brian Hodgson and Roger LimbAll music except (*) BBC Copyright

Ⓟ & © 2016 BBC WorldWide Ltd. Under exclusive licence to Silva Screen Records Ltd. All rights reserved. SILCD1503

Originally released on BBC Records REC 354, 1979

01. QUATERMASS AND THE PIT Desmond Briscoe 0:37One of the special sounds created for the first major

Science Fiction Series

02. BLOODNOCK’S STOMACH Dick Mills / Jimmy Burnett 0:10A classic from the “Goon Show”

03. OUTSIDE Desmond Briscoe 0:36Prison cell sequence for an experimental T.V. drama

04. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY Phil Young 0:27The first Electronic Signature Tune, used for many years

by the BBC World Service

05. THE ARTIST SPEAKS Phil Young 1:27Part of an evocative sequence for a film based on the work

of Victor Passmore

06. THE SPLENDOUR THAT WAS ROME Phil Young 0:30Opening Titles for a T.V. Series

07. INTERVAL SIGNAL Maddalena Fagandini 1:38One of the many interval signals that filled the gaps between

TV programmes

08. PHRA THE PHOENICIAN Desmond Briscoe 0:50A time shift sequence from a Children’s Radio serial

09. STICK UP Desmond Briscoe 0:49The opening of a murder play set in Glasgow on a dockside

in the fog

10. TIME BEAT Maddalena Fagandini 0:30Another Television interval signal later to achieve fame

on a Parlophone gramophone record

11. IDEAL HOME EXHIBITION Maddalena Fagandini 1:03Music for BBC Stand at the Ideal Home Exhibition in 1962

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The Radiophonic Workshop in the early days was less often asked to provide pieces to stand on their own than to create atmosphere and sounds to be incorporated into complete productions.

The work was undertaken on very primitive equipment and with a multifarious selection of sound sources including an old piano frame, a water cistern, an enormous selection of bottles - in fact, just about anything that would make an interesting noise! In those days there were no synthesizers or multi-track machines. Tape manipulation and editing were the main techniques employed and several layers of sound could only be created by recording each one on a different tape and playing them all together, all the while hoping that the tape machines would stay in synchronisation.

Nevertheless, in spite of appalling problems the combined creativity of the people involved ensured that the Department not only survived but grew in size and reputation, each generation of composers building on the work of those who had left, and each adding their unique creative

contribution.

Tracks 1 to 28 cover the period from 1958 - 1971. All the tracks are Mono and as far as possible are copies of the original masters. We have resisted the temptation to clean up tracks, so they exist in their original form - tape hiss, crackles, warts and all - and the listener should be able to detect a quality change over the first side as equipment was gradually improved (starting about 1962)

as high-quality tape recorders came into use at the Workshop.

Tracks 29 to 45, which are in Stereo, are a cross-section of more recent material and shows how modern technology, in the form of synthesizers and multi-track recorders, has made a considerable

difference both in the quality and the complexity of our work.

We hope you enjoy it.

The original LP sleeve notes by Brian Hodgson

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s 21st Birthday Album was originally released on vinyl in 1979. Thirty-six years later, this new remaster sources the original compilation tapes from which the vinyl LP was cut, transferred digitally at 88.2kHz, 24-bit on an ex-BBC Studer A80 tape recorder on 3 August 2015. In keeping with the original release, I have taken a fairly light touch with the mastering, using vintage equalisation and minimal processing to - hopefully - shine a light on

the analogue genius of the original recordings.

Mark Ayres, February 2016

12. TIME ON OUR HANDS Delia Derbyshire 1:10A sequence from a Television documentary about leisure

13. ARABIC SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY Delia Derbyshire 0:22A signature tune specially composed for the Arabic Service

“Science and Industry” Programme

14. THE CHEM LAB MYSTERY Maddalena Fagandini 0:50Closing titles from a Television serial

15. KNOW YOUR CAR 0:57Arr. Delia Derbyshire / Composer: Maurice Abrahams

Publisher: Francis, Day & HunterAn amusing arrangement of “Get Out and Get Under”

originally done for a Television car maintenance programme

16. DR. WHO 1:30Arr. Delia Derbyshire / Composed by Ron Grainer

Published by Erle Music-Chappell*Perhaps the most famous Television Signature Tune

in the world in its original form

17. TARDIS Brian Hodgson 1:13Dr. Who’s celebrated space and time vehicle

18. CHOICE John Baker 0:36A Signature Tune for the first Consumer programme

on Television created from the sound produced by striking the open end of an empty bottle with the palm of the hand

19. HARDLUCK HALL John Baker 0:32The Signature Tune for a Radio comedy series, this time using the intake of air produced by a pneumatic bottle

opener as the original sound

20. TALK OUT Delia Derbyshire 0:25The opening of a Radio ‘Talk Show’

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21. SCIENCE AND HEALTH (“MIKE’S CHOICE”) Delia Derbyshire 0:55A Signature Tune for a Radio sex education programme

rejected by the producer on the grounds that it was “too lascivious” - hence the sub-title

22. SECRETS OF THE CHASM Tony Askew 1:07From a Television documentary about the caves

of Gouffre Berger. The original sound is piano bass strings, tuned to F sharp

23. WESTMINSTER AT WORK Keith Salmon 0:26Opening Signature sequence produced from

the edited sounds of Big Ben’s mechanism

24. A NEW VIEW OF POLITICS Delia Derbyshire 0:39Television Signature Tune

25. ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Delia Derbyshire 0:29Opening of a Scottish Schools Radio programme

about the environment

26. CHRONICLE Delia Derbyshire 0:20Opening Signature Tune for the Television Series

27. GREAT ZOOS OF THE WORLD Delia Derbyshire 0:34Composed using real animal sounds

28. MINDS OF EVIL Dudley Simpson / Cop. Con* 0:42One of the first pieces of incidental music for “Dr. Who” to be realised on a synthesizer

29. FANFARE [1975] Dick Mills 0:20From a Schools Radio Series of Border Country Tales,

Lord Soulis announces his arrival with his own elaborate fanfare

30. BROKEN BISCUIT CLUB [1978] Paddy Kingsland 0:38Signature tune for a children’s programme on Radio Scotland

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31. THE PLUNDERERS [1975] Roger Limb 1:14Theme Music from a “Chronicle” programme exposing the pillaging of archeological sites

32. MYSTERIOSO (“Blake’s Seven”) [1977] Richard Yeoman-Clark 1:08Music provided to give an atmospheric background

in Blake’s Spacecraft

33. GREENWICH CHORUS [1978] Peter Howell 2:17From “The Body In Question”; the ticking

clock comes from the Greenwich Observatory, the special ‘voices’ are created through

the Vocoder

34. HURDY GURDY [1978] Malcolm Clarke 1:29This evocation of the mechanical musical machine

was realised largely on the Synthi 100

35. MARTIAN MARCH PAST [1973] Dick Mills 0:30One of the spectacles experienced by

Duke Diamond (from Radio 4’s “4th Dimension”) during his interplanetary travels

36. A WHISPER FROM SPACE [1978] Paddy Kingsland 2:11From an “Horizon” programme on Cosmology,

this music accompanied a stylised journey to the edge of the Universe

37. SWIRLEY [1978] Roger Limb 1:50Written to introduce the daily bulletins of transmitter

information on BBC-2

38. MERRY-GO-ROUND [1974] Peter Howell 0:20Title Music for the Schools TV series; created using

a simple synthesizer line with syncopated tape echo

39. BBC-2 SERIAL [1975] Malcolm Clarke 0:45Music created to introduce a sequence of dramas on BBC-2

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40. QUIRKY [1976] Roger Limb 1:30The rhythmic framework is provided by a percussive figure

in a digital sequencer; for TV presentation

41. NEWTON [1976] Paddy Kingsland 1:06Closing Title Music from an “Horizon” programme about

the life of Sir Isaac Newton

42. THE SECRET WAR [1976] Peter Howell 0:52Title Music from a BBC-1 series on the electronic and technical

undercover developments during World War II

43. THOMAS THE RHYMER [1974] Dick Mills 1:15In this music for a Schools Radio drama, Thomas the Rhymer

meets the White Queen amid the Northern Mists

44. CONTACT [1977] Malcolm Clarke 0:25This piece, using the vocoder, was written for the Religious

programmes department of Schools Radio

45. FOR LOVE OR MONEY [1977] Roger Limb 1:08A blending of the harpsichord and the synthesizer; provided

for an “Omnibus” investigation into the art market

Compiled by Brian Hodgson and Roger LimbAll music except * BBC Copyright

CREDITS

Album remastering by Mark Ayres

Unless otherwise noted all titles published by BBC Worldwide / Universal Music Publishing

Originally released on BBC Records REC 354

Executive producers for Silva Screen Records Ltd: Reynold D’Silva and David Stoner

Release co-ordination by Pete Compton Artwork by Stuart Ford

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