Tag: Doctor Who theme music
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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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What if John Carpenter did a Doctor Who Theme?
Liking this alternate dimension version of Doctor Who if John Carpenter did the theme, cheers me up after the shock of finding out that Red Dwarf has lyrics and I missed them all these years o.O (JC DW video via Thriftshop XL) He’s also done Vangelis and Jean Michel Jarre versions of the theme:
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BBC Radiophonic Workshop rare footage
Firstly is a good mix of clips of all the archive footage – you’ll recognise some of this in later videos. I still haven’t found what I’m looking for – but the bonus is finding some rare footage of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Above is the Workshop in 1964 – with Jenyth Worsley, Maddalena Fagandini…
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16 bit Doctor Who Theme
Love this chiptune version of Doctor Who! Talking of Doctor Who – more hunting around for other clips, I found that ‘More That 30 Years In The TARDIS’ is on Dailymotion in two parts (still didn’t find that BBC Radiophonic genesis of the Doctor Who theme clip I was looking for – maybe they cut…
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Doctor Who Live and One Direction fans argue re-enacted
Apparently they were something to do with Day Of The Doctor – Doctor Who Live which sounds like another BBC event ‘fail’ (really like National Lottery, Jubilee etc. Auntie is very good at snatching defeat from the jaws of certain ‘can’t miss’ victory) so enjoy this re-enactment of two 1D fans arguing. It’s very funny…and…
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Petition to the BBC to release Delia Derbyshire’s music
Amazing that Delia Derbyshire’s music has been hidden away for so long…her work has had the odd compilation appearance but unlike the others in the Radiophonic Workshop she’s never had officially an album of her own, a box set or ‘best of’ of her massive back catalogue. She’s arguably the most famous Radiophonic workshop via…