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Audio visionary Delia Derbyshire

What Happened to McCartney’s Delia Derbyshire Collaboration?

The Beatles legend Paul McCartney has revealed that he asked Delia Derbyshire, who realised Doctor Who’s unique and timeless theme tune, to remake his massive hit, “Yesterday”. McCartney told Q…

Audio visionary Delia Derbyshire

Delia Derbyshire’s Adventure in Space and Time?

The Doctor Who theme tune is one of the most iconic tunes in the world – and the woman who created it is being celebrated by the BBC in the…

Audio visionary Delia Derbyshire

Saturday is Delia Derbyshire Day!

Taking place at Band on the Wall, situated in Manchester’s Northern Quarter this Saturday 12th January, Delia Derbyshire Day is a celebration of the electronic music pioneer whose vision resulted…

Delia Derbyshire

A New Radiophonic Workshop!

The Radiophonics Workshop, a sound effects unit at the BBC, is legendary. And it’s back! Need I say more? Well, okay, I will. The Workshop, created in 1958 to compliment…

Unheard Delia Derbyshire Interview

BBC Inside Out will feature a previously unbroadcast interview Delia Derbyshire – the woman who created the iconic Doctor Who theme – on Monday 15th November. Excepts from the interview…

Notes From The Past

Academic and Composer Steve Kilpatrick has re-opened the old score sheets of the Philip Hinchcliffe era of Doctor Who and traced their avant-garde, experimental leanings right to the Second Viennese School of Schoenberg,…

Doctor Whorld Music

Regular readers will know how much we like the quirky Doctor Who stuff, not to mention variations on the theme tune – so what better than a world music trio…