BBC Radiophonic Workshop discography explained

Artist:BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Studio:6
Compilation:10
Singles:12
Soundtrack:19
Option Name:Sound effect albums
Option:6
1Option Name:Stock music library albums
1Option:6
2Option Name:Box Sets
2Option:3

This is the discography of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a British electronic music group. It consists of releases of music and sound effects.

Studio albums

Year Album details Notes
1969 The Seasons
  • Released 1969
  • Label: BBC Radio Enterprises
  • Formats: LP, CD[1]
Music by David Cain
1973 Fourth Dimension
  • Released 1973
  • Label: BBC Records
  • Formats: LP
Music by Paddy Kingsland
1978 Through A Glass Darkly
  • Released 1978
  • Label: BBC Records
  • Formats: LP
Music by Peter Howell
2014 Radiophonic Workshop[2]
  • Released December 2014
  • Label: Bowers & Wilkins
  • Formats: Subscriber-only download
2017Burials In Several Earths[3]
  • Released 19 May 2017
  • Label: Room 13
  • Formats: 2xCD, 4x10" LP, WAV/FLAC, mp3
2017 Everything You Can Imagine Is Real[4]
  • Released 30 June 2017
  • Label: Room 13
  • Formats: cassette, WAV/FLAC, mp3

Soundtrack albums

Year Album details Notes
1984 The Living Planet
  • Released 1984
  • Label: BBC Records
  • Formats: LP, CD[5]
Music by Elizabeth Parker
2015 The Vendetta Tapes
  • Released 25 September 2015
  • Label: Buried Treasure Records
  • Formats: CD, LP
Music by John Baker
2018The Changes
  • Released 21 April 2018[6]
  • Label: Silva Screen
  • Formats: 2-LP (limited), download[7]
Music by Paddy Kingsland
2018Possum
  • Released 26 October 2018[8] [9]
  • Label: Room 13
  • Formats: CD, WAV/FLAC, mp3
2018The Box of Delights[10]
  • Released December 2018
  • Label: Silva Screen
  • Formats: CD
Music by Roger Limb
2019The Stone Tape[11]
  • Released 13 April 2019
  • Label: Silva Screen
  • Formats: 10" green vinyl
Music by Desmond Briscoe
2021La Planète Sauvage[12]
  • Released: 23 November 2021, 21 January 2022
Re-imaged score for the 1973 animated film Fantastic Planet

Doctor Who soundtrack albums

Year Album details Notes
1978BBC Sound Effects No. 19 - Doctor Who Sound Effects
  • Released 1978
  • Label: BBC Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette (CS), CD
1983 Doctor Who - The Music
  • Released 1983
  • Label: BBC Records
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
Reissued on CD in 1992 as Earthshock - Classic Music From The BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 1.
1985 Doctor Who - The Music II
  • Released 1985
  • Label: BBC Records
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
Reissued on CD in 1992 as The Five Doctors - Classic Music From The BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 2.
1993
  • Released 5 July 1993
  • Label: BBC Records
  • Formats: CD
2000
  • Released 2000
  • Label: BBC Music
  • Formats: CD
  • Released 2000
  • Label: BBC Music
  • Formats: CD
2002
  • Released 2002
  • Label: BBC Music
  • Formats: CD
Music and effects by Peter Howell and Dick Mills
  • Released 2002
  • Label: BBC Music
  • Formats: CD
Music by Paddy Kingsland and Peter Howell
2013 Doctor Who – The Caves of Androzani
  • Released 25 March 2013
  • Label: Silva Screen
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP, Download
Music by Roger Limb
Doctor Who – The Krotons [13]
  • Released 13 May 2013
  • Label: Silva Screen
  • Formats: CD, 10" LP, Download
Special sounds by Brian Hodgson
2018Doctor Who – The Five Doctors[14]
  • Released 14 September 2018
  • Label: Silva Screen
  • Formats: CD, 2-LP[15]
Music by Peter Howell with special sounds by Dick Mills
2020Doctor Who – The Visitation[16]
  • Released 1 May 2020
  • Label: Silva Screen
  • Formats: CD, Vinyl
Music by Paddy Kingsland
2023Doctor Who – Revenge of the Cybermen[17]
  • Released 24 November 2023
  • Label: Silva Screen
  • Formats: CD, Vinyl
Music by Peter Howell augmenting Carey Blyton's original score

Sound effects albums

Year Album details Notes
1976 Out of This World
  • Released 1976
  • Label: BBC Records
  • Formats: LP, CD
Reissued on CD in 1991 as Essential Science Fiction Sound Effects Vol. 2.
1977Sound Effects No. 13 – Death & Horror
  • Released 1976
  • Label: BBC Records
  • Formats: LP
Produced by Mike Harding
1978Sound Effects No. 21 – More Death & Horror
  • Released 1976
  • Label: BBC Records
  • Formats: LP
Produced by Mike Harding
1981 BBC Sound Effects No. 26 - Sci-Fi Sound Effects
  • Released 1981
  • Label: BBC Records
  • Formats: LP, CD
Reissued on CD in 1991 as Essential Science Fiction Sound Effects Vol. 1, reissued on CD under the original title in 2013.
1982Even More Death & Horror – Sound Effects No. 27
  • Released 1982
  • Label: BBC Records
  • Formats: LP
Produced by Mike Harding
1984Hi-Tech FX - Sound Effects No.29
  • Released 1984
  • Label: BBC Records
  • Formats: LP, CD
Released on CD in 1991 as Essential Hi Tech Sound Effects with the 1991 Tomorrow's World 3-D stereo demonstration

Compilation albums

Year Album details Notes
1968 BBC Radiophonic Music
  • Released 1968
  • Label: BBC Radio Enterprises
1975 The Radiophonic Workshop
  • Released 1975
  • Label: BBC Records
  • Formats: LP, CD
1979 BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 21
  • Released 1979
  • Label: BBC Records
  • Formats: LP, CD[18]
1983The Soundhouse
  • Released 1983
  • Label: BBC Records
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD[19] [20]
1990Essential Death & Horror Sound Effects Vol. 1
  • Released 1990
  • Label: BBC Enterprises
  • Format: CD
Compilation of the tracks produced by Mike Harding from the sides A of all three Death and Horror albums
Essential Death & Horror Sound Effects Vol. 2
  • Released 1990
  • Label: BBC Enterprises
  • Format: CD
Compilation of the tracks produced by Mike Harding from the sides B of all three Death and Horror albums
2003 Music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
  • Released 8 November 2003
  • Label: Rephlex
  • Formats: 4x10" LP
Collects and re-orders BBC Radiophonic Music (1968) and The Radiophonic Worlshop (1975)
2008 The John Baker Tapes – Volume 1: BBC Radiophonics
  • Released July 2008
  • Label: Trunk Records
  • Formats:CD, LP
Music by John Baker
BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective
  • Released November 2008
  • Label: The Grey Area
  • Formats: CD
2017Radiophonica
  • Released 10 April 2017
  • Label: Electronic Sound
  • Format: CD
CD included in a limited bundle with issue 28 of the Electronic Sound magazine.[21]

Stock music library albums

Year Album details Notes
1994 Poisoned Planet[22]
  • Released 1994
  • Label: Cavendish Music
  • Formats: CD
Music by Elizabeth Parker, Peter Howell, Roger Limb, Malcolm Clarke and Richard Attree
Undersea World[23]
  • Released 1994
  • Label: Cavendish Music
  • Format: CD
Music by Elizabeth Parker, Peter Howell, Roger Limb, Malcolm Clarke and Richard Attree
Africa[24]
  • Released 1994
  • Label: Cavendish Music
  • Format: CD
Music by Peter Howell, Roger Limb, Malcolm Clarke and Richard Attree
Time And Space[25]
  • Released 1994
  • Label: Cavendish Music
  • Format: CD
Music by Elizabeth Parker, Peter Howell, Roger Limb, and Malcolm Clarke
Ethnic Impressions[26]
  • Released 1994
  • Label: Cavendish Music
  • Format: CD
Music by Elizabeth Parker, Peter Howell, Roger Limb, Malcolm Clarke and Richard Attree
2012Retro Electro Music by Paddy Kingsland

Box sets

Year Album details Notes
1993Radiophonic Workshop
  • Released 1993
  • Label: Cavendish Music
  • Format: 5-CD
Box set of five stock music albums:
  • Poisoned Planet
  • Undersea World
  • Africa
  • Time And Space
  • Ethnic Impressions
2020Four Albums 1968 - 1978[27] [28]
  • Released 29 August 2020
  • Label: Silva Screen
  • Format: 6-CD
Box set released for Record Store Day 2020 including:
2023Inventions for Radio[29] [30]
  • Released 8 December 2023
  • Label: Silva Screen
  • Format: 6-LP, 6-CD
Box set of four radio broadcasts by Barry Bermange and Delia Derbyshire:
  • "The Dreams"
  • "Amor Dei'
  • "The After-Life"
  • "The Evenings of Certain Lives"

with related and bonus material

CD box set released as part of Record Store Day 20 April 2024.[31]

Singles

Year Title Notes
1962 "Time Beat" / "Waltz in Orbit" Ray Cathode (a pseudonym used by Maddalena Fagandini and George Martin)
1964 "Doctor Who" / "This Can't Be Love" Original Arrangement by Delia Derbyshire / Brenda & Johnny
1973 "Doctor Who" / "Reg" New Arrangement by Delia Derbyshire / Paddy Kingsland
1973 "Moonbase 3" / "The World Of Dr Who" Dick Mills
1976 Music From "The Changes" Paddy Kingsland
1978 "The Astronauts" / "Magenta Court" Peter Howell
1980 "Doctor Who" / "The Astronauts" Peter Howell
1981 The Body in Question Three tracks of music from the series by Peter Howell
1982 "K-9 & Company" / "Doctor Who" Ian Levine and Fiachra Trench / Peter Howell
2017 "Proximity Edit"[32] A single edit taken from Everything You Can Image Is Real reworked and reassembled by Rupert Clervaux
2018 "Strange Beacons" / "Mind the Gap" Released with issue 43 of the Electronic Sound magazine.[33]
2019 "Doctor Who" / "Strange Lines And Distances" Released with issue 59 of the Electronic Sound magazine.

See also

Notes and References

  1. The Seasons. 2012 . booklet. Trunk Records. JBH043CD.
  2. Web site: Radiophonic Workshop . Bowers & Wilkins / Society of Sound . 2015-01-30.
  3. Web site: The Radiophonic Workshop - Burials In Several Earths - Room 13. Bleep. bleep.com. 17 April 2017.
  4. Web site: The Radiophonic Workshop - Everything You Can Imagine Is Real - Room 13. Bleep. Bleep. 22 July 2017.
  5. Web site: Elizabeth Parker, BBC Radiophonic Workshop - The Living Planet (Music from the BBC TV Series). greedbag.com. 30 July 2016.
  6. Web site: Paddy Kingsland - Record Store Day. Record Store Day. 9 March 2018. 10 March 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180310074750/https://recordstoreday.co.uk/releases/rsd-2018/paddy-kingsland/. dead.
  7. Web site: Radiophonic Workshop. Facebook. 9 March 2018.
  8. Web site: Possum (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), by The Radiophonic Workshop. The Radiophonic Workshop. 26 September 2018.
  9. Web site: The Radiophonic Workshop - Possum (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). CD. Bleep.. 25 October 2018. bleep.com. 26 September 2018.
  10. Web site: Roger Limb and The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - The Box Of Delights (Original Television Soundtrack). Silva Screen Music.
  11. Web site: Desmond Briscoe, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Record Store Day. Record Store Day UK.
  12. Web site: Stealing Sheep and the Radiophonic Workshop – la Planète Sauvage. 15 October 2021.
  13. Web site: New Classic Who Release:The Krotons . Doctor Who Music . 2013-03-28.
  14. Web site: DOCTOR WHO - THE INVASION -- SCREEN ARCHIVES ENTERTAINMENT. www.screenarchives.com. 3 August 2018.
  15. Web site: Re: Silva Screen releases [Part Two] ]. Ayres . Mark . Mark Ayres . 22 February 2018 . The Doctor Who Forum . 22 February 2018 . registration . https://web.archive.org/web/20180223051104/http://gallifreybase.com/forum/showpost.php?p=10706429&postcount=897 . 23 February 2018 . dead .
  16. . Gallifrey Guardian: Revisiting Vinyl . . 547 . 4 . Tunbridge Wells, Kent . Panini UK Ltd . February 2020 .
  17. Web site: SILCD1585 Doctor Who – Revenge Of The Cybermen. www.silvascreen.com.
  18. Web site: Radiophonic Workshop Powers Up On April 22nd. Silva Screen Records . 16 March 2016.
  19. Web site: The Soundhouse. 7 October 2016. 25 September 2016. Amazon.
  20. Web site: Various Artists - BBC Radiophonic Workshop - The Soundhouse. greedbag.com. 25 September 2016.
  21. Web site: Issue 28 & CD Bundle - Sold Out - Electronic Sound. electronicsound.co.uk. 22 July 2017.
  22. Poisoned Planet . 1993 . booklet. Cavendish Music. CAV CD 55.
  23. Undersea World. 1993 . booklet. Cavendish Music. CAV CD 56.
  24. Africa. 1993 . booklet. Cavendish Music. CAV CD 57.
  25. Time and Space. 1993 . booklet. Cavendish Music. CAV CD 58.
  26. Ethnic Impressions. 1993 . booklet. Cavendish Music. CAV CD 59.
  27. Web site: BBC Radiophonic Workshop, The - Record Store Day. recordstoreday.co.uk. 2 June 2020. 3 September 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200903153910/https://recordstoreday.co.uk/releases/rsd-drop-august/bbc-radiophonic-workshop-the/. dead.
  28. Web site: Silva Screen Records. www.silvascreen.com.
  29. Web site: Silva Screen Records. www.silvascreen.com.
  30. Web site: Barry Bermange, Delia Derbyshire, BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Inventions for Radio. Silva Screen.. Silva. Screen. silvascreen.ochre.store.
  31. Web site: Inventions for Radio.
  32. Web site: Proximity Edit, by The Radiophonic Workshop x Rupert Clervaux. The Radiophonic Workshop. 9 March 2018.
  33. Web site: Issue 43 & Vinyl Bundle - Pre-Order - Electronic Sound. electronicsound.co.uk. 4 July 2018.