Tag: BBC Radio
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RIP Janice Long
RIP DJ and presenter Janice Long – first woman daytime Radio 1 DJ, first regular presenter of Top of the Pops, presenter at Live Aid, and by all accounts a lovely woman. And friend of John Peel – as can be seen on these segments on the excellent Top of the Pops: Story of series…
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The Sound Makers
Fascinating audio from a 1963 BBC “Sound’ Documentary about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The fact it’s on vinyl is because the BBC transcribed many of their works onto vinyl for safe-keeping and future re-use – the B-side is actually repeats of the A-side. It’s a fascinating look at the early Workshop, and features Desmond Briscoe,…
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The Tripping Forecast
Back to lighter and less serious times (although I suspect now that was just a freak pause), this mix from Rob Manuel as l_o_n_g_w_a_v_e is indeed a radiophonic trip. Very hauntological and nostalgic in the vein of The Focus Group and others recreating library music and ‘logotones’ and radio idents for the teens..Given that this…
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Malcolm Clarke on the Radiophonic Workshop
Malcolm Clarke was a composer and engineer for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, composing the music for many Doctor Who series. Apparently he wrote about the Workshop and his career for a thesis on interactive CD format (remember them?) and his son Ollie with Ray White has wisely converted and adapted the format for the web…
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Happy Birthday Radiophonic Workshop
BBC Radiophonic Workshop is 60 today, and the remaining members of the Workshop have posted this video to celebrate. It features a new track by Paddy Kingsland calles Radiophonic, and comes with some news – the back catalogue will be re-released on vinyl and CD, and a 60th box set with unreleased music. And, most…
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Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy reaches 40
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet where on 10:30 pm on Wednesday, 8th March 1978 a radio program went…