BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective is a 2008 compilation of music and effects from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. It was released to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the workshop and includes material ranging from then to its closure. Many of the tracks were previously released on the BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 21

BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 21

BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 21 was a compilation by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to celebrate their 21st anniversary in 1979. It was compiled as an overview of their work both old and new, showcasing the changes in the Workshop as they developed from backroom sound effects suppliers for BBC Radio to...

and The Soundhouse

The Soundhouse

The Soundhouse was the 1983 compilation of music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. It featured music composed at the Workshop in the period since the previous compilation, BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 21...

.

Track listing

Disc 1

1. Daphne Oram
   Daphne Oram
   Daphne Oram was a British composer and electronic musician. She was the creator of the "Oramics" technique for creating electronic sounds....
   
    - "Amphitryon 38"
2. Daphne Oram & Desmond Briscoe
   Desmond Briscoe
   Harry Desmond Briscoe was an English composer, sound engineer and studio manager. He was the co-founder and original manager of the pioneering BBC Radiophonic Workshop....
   
    - "The Ocean (Main Title)"
3. Desmond Briscoe - "Quatermass and the Pit
   Quatermass and the Pit
   Quatermass and the Pit is a British television science-fiction serial, originally transmitted live by BBC Television in December 1958 and January 1959. It was the third and last of the BBC's Quatermass serials, although the character would reappear in a 1979 ITV production simply entitled Quatermass...
   
   (Effects)"
4. Dick Mills
   Dick Mills
   Dick Mills is a British sound engineer, specialising in electronic sound effects which he produced at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop....
   
    - "Major Bloodnok
   Major Bloodnok
   Major Denis Bloodnok, IND. ARM. RTD. coward and bar is a fictional character from the 1950s BBC Radio comedy The Goon Show. He was voiced by Peter Sellers.-Basis of character:...
   
   's Stomach"
5. Desmond Briscoe & Maddalena Fagandini
   Maddalena Fagandini
   Maddalena Fagandini is an electronic musician and television producer. She was employed by the BBC in the early 50s as part of their Italian Service before becoming part of the pioneering BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1959. Her work with the Radiophonic Workshop involved creating jingles and interval...
   
    - "Outside"
6. Phil Young - "Science and Industry"
7. Phil Young - "The Artist Speaks"
8. Phil Young - "The Splendour That Was Rome"
9. Desmond Briscoe - "TV March"
10. Maddalena Fagandini - "Interval Signal"
11. Desmond Briscoe - "Phra The Phoenician"
12. Desmond Briscoe - "Full Circle - The Stick Up"
13. Maddalena Fagandini - "Time Beat"
14. Jenyth Worsley - "Music For A Magic Carpet"
15. Maddalena Fagandini - "Ideal Home Exhibition"
16. Delia Derbyshire
    Delia Derbyshire
    Delia Ann Derbyshire was an English musician and composer of electronic music and musique concrète. She is best known for her electronic realisation of Ron Grainer's theme music to the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and for her work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.-Early...
    
     - "Time On Our Hands (Titles And City)"
17. Delia Derbyshire - "Arabic Science and Industry"
18. Maddalena Fagandini - "The Chem Lab Mystery"
19. Delia Derbyshire - "Know Your Car (Get Out And Under)"
20. Delia Derbyshire - "Doctor Who
    Doctor Who theme music
    The Doctor Who theme is a piece of music composed by Ron Grainer and realised by Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Created in 1963, it was one of the first electronic music signature tunes for television and after nearly five decades remains one of the most easily...
    
    "
21. Brian Hodgson
    Brian Hodgson
    Brian Hodgson is a British television composer and sound technician. Born in Liverpool in 1938, Hodgson joined the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1962 where he became the original sound effects creator for the science fiction programme Doctor Who...
    
     - "Tardis"
22. John Baker
    John Baker (Radiophonic musician)
    John Baker was a British musician and composer who worked in jazz and electronic music. He was educated at the Royal Academy of Music where he studied piano and composition. In 1960 he joined the BBC as a sound mixer, before transferring, in 1963, to the BBC Radiophonic Workshop where he remained...
    
     - "Choice"
23. John Baker - "Hard Luck Hall"
24. Keith Salmon - "Westminster At Work"
25. Delia Derbyshire - "Talk Out"
26. Delia Derbyshire - "Science And Health"
27. Tony Askew - "Secrets Of The Chasm"
28. Brian Hodgson & Bridget Marrow - "The Slide (Opening)"
29. Delia Derbyshire - "A New View Of Politics"
30. David Cain
    David Cain (composer)
    David Cain was a composer and technician for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. He was educated at Imperial College London, where he earned a degree in mathematics. In 1963, he joined the BBC as a studio manager, specialising in radio drama...
    
     - "Radio Stoke-On-Trent
    BBC Radio Stoke
    BBC Radio Stoke is a BBC Local Radio station in England, for the area of North and Mid Staffordshire, north east Shropshire and South Cheshire. The station began broadcasting programmes on 14 March 1968 as BBC Radio Stoke-on-Trent....
    
     (1)"
31. David Cain - "Radio Stoke-On-Trent (2)"
32. John Baker - "Bobby Shafto
    Bobby Shafto
    Robert Shafto was an 18th-century British Member of Parliament , who was the likeliest subject of a famous North East English folk song and nursery rhyme "Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea".-Biography:...
    
    e"
33. John Baker - "The Lambton Worm"
34. Delia Derbyshire - "Environmental Studies"
35. Delia Derbyshire - "Chronicle"
36. Delia Derbyshire - "Great Zoos of the World"
37. John Baker - "P.M.
    PM (Radio 4)
    PM, sometimes referred to as the PM programme to avoid ambiguity, is BBC Radio 4's long-running early evening news and current affairs programme.-Broadcast times:...
    
     (1970)"
38. John Baker - "Tros Y Gareg (Over The Stone)"
39. Delia Derbyshire - "Dance From 'Noah'"
40. John Baker - "Good Morning Wales"
41. Paddy Kingsland
    Paddy Kingsland
    Paddy Kingsland is a composer of electronic music best known for his incidental music for science fiction series on BBC radio and television whilst working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Educated at Eggars Grammar School, Alton, in Hampshire, he joined the BBC as a tape editor before moving on to...
    
     - "Sequence"
42. Dick Mills - "Martian March Past"
43. Paddy Kingsland - "The Changes (Suite)"
44. Dick Mills - "Thomas The Rhymer"
45. Peter Howell
    Peter Howell
    Peter Howell is a musician and composer. He is best known for his work on Doctor Who as a member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop....
    
     - "Merry-Go-Round"
46. Dick Mills - "Fanfare"
47. Malcolm Clarke
    Malcolm Clarke
    Malcolm Clarke was a British composer, and a member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop for 25 years from 1969 to 1994.Clarke proved somewhat controversial when he joined the workshop, due to his views that Radiophonic music should be, in his words, "fine art," a philosophy that was not shared by...
    
     - "BBC2 Serial"
48. Roger Limb
    Roger Limb
    Roger Limb is a British composer, specialising in electronic music. He is best known for his work on the television series Doctor Who whilst at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. He joined the BBC as a studio manager, before going on to become a television announcer. In 1972 he left this position to...
    
     - "The Plunderers"
49. Peter Howell - "The Secret War"
50. Roger Limb - "Quirky"
51. Paddy Kingsland - "Newton"
52. Malcolm Clarke - "Contact"
53. Roger Limb - "For Love Or Money"
54. Richard Yeoman-Clark
    Richard Yeoman-Clark
    Richard Yeoman-Clark is a British composer and sound engineer who worked at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop from 1970 to 1978.He is most recognised for providing special sound for the first two seasons of the science fiction series Blake's 7....
    
     - "Mysterioso"
55. Peter Howell - "The Astronauts"
56. Peter Howell - "Moving Form (Main Theme From The Body In Question)"
57. Paddy Kingsland - "A Whisper From Space"
58. Peter Howell - "Land And People"
59. Roger Limb - "Swirley"
60. Peter Howell - "Greenwich Chorus"
61. Malcolm Clarke - "Hurdy Gurdy"
62. Paddy Kingsland - "P.M. (1978)"
63. Paddy Kingsland - "Broken Biscuit Club"
64. Malcolm Clarke - "The Unseeing Eye"
65. Malcolm Clarke - "The Milonga"
66. Peter Howell - "Mainstream"
67. Dick Mills - "Seascape"
68. Roger Limb - "Yellow Moon"

Disc 2

1. Paddy Kingsland - "Brighton Pier" (from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
   The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)
   The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is a BBC television adaptation of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy broadcast in January and February 1981 on BBC Two...
   
   )
2. Paddy Kingsland - "The Whale" (from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
3. Elizabeth Parker - "Radio Blackburn
   BBC Radio Lancashire
   BBC Radio Lancashire is the BBC Local Radio service for the county of Lancashire, in North West England. It began as BBC Radio Blackburn on 26 January 1971 on 96.4FM, then adding 854 kHz AM in 1972 and changing to its current name on 4 July 1981...
   
   "
4. Peter Howell - "Lascaux"
5. Malcolm Clarke - "The Comet Is Coming"
6. Dick Mills - "Macrocosm"
7. Elizabeth Parker - "Planet Earth (Scenes From The Living Planet
   The Living Planet
   The Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the UK from 19 January 1984....
   
   )"
8. Dick Mills - "Catch The Wind"
9. Peter Howell & Dick Mills - "Fancy Fish" (arrangement of Camille Saint-Saëns
   Camille Saint-Saëns
   Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
   
   's "Aquarium" from Le carnaval des animaux
   The Carnival of the Animals
   Le carnaval des animaux is a musical suite of fourteen movements by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The orchestral work has a duration between 22 and 30 minutes.-History:...
   
   )
10. Jonathan Gibbs
    Jonathan Gibbs (composer)
    Jonathan Gibbs is a British composer. Between 1983 and 1985 he worked at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. His work at the workshop included providing the scores for the Doctor Who stories The King's Demons, Warriors of the Deep, Vengeance on Varos and The Mark of the Rani.-External links:...
    
     - "Houdin's Musical Box"
11. Jonathan Gibbs - "Computers In The Real World"
12. Malcolm Clarke - "Believe It Or Not"
13. Dick Mills - "Armagiddean War Games"
14. Jonathan Gibbs - "Dawn"
15. Roger Limb - "Ghost In The Water"
16. Peter Howell, Roger Limb, Jonathan Gibbs, Elizabeth Parker & Dick Mills - "Radiophonic Rock"
17. Jonathan Gibbs - "Woman of Paris"
18. Dick Mills - "Dandelion Countdown"
19. Jonathan Gibbs - "Heart Of The Matter"
20. Richard Attree
    Richard Attree
    Richard Attree is a British TV and Film composer. He attended Highgate School, and then studied electronic music at the Royal College of Music following a degree in computer science. Whilst completing these studies he played as a keyboard player with various bands...
    
     - "Dead Entry (Opening Titles)"
21. Richard Attree - "No Easy Street"
22. Steve Marshall - "Slambash Wangs Of A Compo Gormer (Titles And Space Theme)"
23. Peter Howell - "The Great Rift"
24. Steve Marshall - "Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon (Titles)"
25. Steve Marshall - "Archery And Cranes"
26. Richard Attree - "Artwork"
27. Richard Attree - "Jewel In The Sun"
28. Richard Attree - "Techno"
29. Richard Attree - "OK2 (You In Mind)"
30. Elizabeth Parker - "Doctor To Be"
31. Elizabeth Parker - "Secret Nature (Titles)"
32. Malcolm Clarke - "The Secret Of Life (Cracking The Code)"
33. Elizabeth Parker - "Salem's Lot"
34. Elizabeth Parker - "Music from The Sea, The Sea"
35. Richard Attree - "Music From The Demon Headmaster"
36. Elizabeth Parker - "The Lost Gardens of Heligan"
37. Peter Howell - "Michael Palin
    Michael Palin
    Michael Edward Palin, CBE FRGS is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries....
    
    's Full Circle
    Full Circle with Michael Palin
    Full Circle with Michael Palin is the title of a 1997 documentary television series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Presented by Michael Palin of Monty Python fame, Full Circle was one of a series of programmes in which Palin made unusual and interesting trips.The series...
    
    (Main Title)"
38. Elizabeth Parker - "Assignment (Kofi Annan
    Kofi Annan
    Kofi Atta Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the UN from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006...
    
    )"
39. Delia Derbyshire - "Dance from 'Noah' (Stereo Mix)"

Other Musicians

• Derek Taylor - Horn (on "The Changes (Suite)")
• Terry Emery - Percussion (on "The Changes (Suite)"), Timpani (on "The Astronauts")
• Nick Gomm - Sitar (on "The Changes (Suite)")
• Howard Tibble - Drums (on "The Astronauts")
• Ross Pople - Cello (on "Moving Form")
• Sebastian Bell - Flute (on "Moving Form" & "Lascaux")
• Geoff Downs - Drums (on "Swirley")

• Kris Rusmanis - Horn (on "The Comet Is Coming")
• Eddie Lorkin - Trombone (on "Believe It Or Not")
• Hilary Jones - Cello (on "Ghost In The Water")
• Nigel Nash - Saxophone (on "Heart Of The Matter")
• Peter Esswood - Cello (on "Doctor To Be" & "Music from The Sea, The Sea")
• Steve Bentley - Trumpet (on "Michael Palin's Full Circle (Main Theme)")

External links

• Label release information