Synopsis
A documentary about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, responsible for creating some of the most memorable television and radio music in British popular culture, including "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and Doctor Who (1963).
2003 Directed by Roger Pomphrey
A documentary about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, responsible for creating some of the most memorable television and radio music in British popular culture, including "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and Doctor Who (1963).
This documentary directed by Roger Pomphrey takes a light-hearted look at the workings of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop that, between 1958 and 1995 did the in-house sound production of music themes, incidental music and sound effects for BBC Radio and later BBC TV programs. When the Workshop was finally closed in 1995 after several years of funding cuts and an insistence that it be revenue generating (something that everyone but senior BBC managers knew was impossible), former staff member and composer turned archivist Mark Ayres assembled more than 3,500 tapes in the archive, more than 400 of which related to Dr Who.
The genesis of the workshop began a year earlier in 1957 when a group of friends who were…
Pretty interesting documentary about the Radiophonic Workshop and if you get bored with the information you can just vibe to the awesome sounds.
Pretty great doc on the ‘Shop except at least a whole star off for barely mentioning Daphne Oram in passing and via a solitary photograph. Shame.
Starts out interesting but soon turns I to an endless repeating of the same mumbojumbo's that finally you get hypnotized and give up the whole shebang.
i love the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Delia, but this documentary is slightly annoying. i got sick of the symbolism of the broken clock set to 1958 in every shot, and i just wanted to punch the director(?) everytime he inserted himself into the background.