Tag: Radiophonic
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RIP David Cain
Sad to hear of the death yesterday of composer David Cain of BBC Radiophonic Workshop fame. Here’s October from his famous ‘The Seasons’ album with poetry from Ronald Duncan which you might have heard via Trunk Records or 6Music – especially Jarvis Cocker’s show who played every month on his show for a year.
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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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Chris Carter on NTS
Chris Carter has his first album in 17 years out on March 30th, Chemistry Lessons Vol 1, which I’m really looking forward to from the bits I’ve heard, and he appeared on a couple of NTS shows to share two mixes of his favourite music. First up is the “>The Synth Hero Show – I…
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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…
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Lorraine Bowen with Barbara Moore
Given the hundredth anniversary of (some) women getting the right to vote in the UK, it seems appropriate to post this show I was listening to from the ‘Crumble Lady’ Lorraine Bowen, talking to composer Barbara Moore. Loving this podcast, Lorraine has the same love of stereo test records and Radiophonics as myself, and it…