BBC Radiophonic Workshop discography

BBC Radiophonic Workshop discography
Studio albums6
Soundtrack albums19
Compilation albums10
Singles12
Sound effect albums6
Stock music library albums6
Box Sets3

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 (RESR 7)
  • Formats: LP, CD[1]
 Music by David Cain
1973 Fourth Dimension
  • Released 1973
  • Label: BBC Records (RED 93 S)
  • Formats: LP
 Music by Paddy Kingsland
1978 Through A Glass Darkly
  • Released 1978
  • Label: BBC Records (REC 307)
  • Formats: LP
 Music by Peter Howell
2014 Radiophonic Workshop[2]
  • Released December 2014
  • Label: Bowers & Wilkins (SOS79)
  • Formats: Subscriber-only download
2017 Burials In Several Earths[3]
  • Released 19 May 2017
  • Label: Room 13 (RWSCD001 [CD]; RWSLP001 [4x10" LP]; RWSDL001 [download])
  • Formats: 2xCD, 4x10" LP, WAV/FLAC, mp3
2017 Everything You Can Imagine Is Real[4]
  • Released 30 June 2017
  • Label: Room 13 (RWSDL002)
  • Formats: cassette, WAV/FLAC, mp3

Soundtrack albums

Year Album details Notes
1984 The Living Planet
  • Released 1984
  • Label: BBC Records (REB 496)
  • Formats: LP, CD[5]
 Music by Elizabeth Parker
2015 The Vendetta Tapes
  • Released 25 September 2015
  • Label: Buried Treasure Records (BUTR8)
  • Formats: CD, LP
 Music by John Baker
2018 The Changes
  • Released 21 April 2018[6]
  • Label: Silva Screen (SILLP1540)
  • Formats: 2-LP (limited), download[7]
 Music by Paddy Kingsland
2018 Possum
  • Released 26 October 2018[8][9]
  • Label: Room 13 (RWSCD003 [CD]; RWSDL003 [download])
  • Formats: CD, WAV/FLAC, mp3
2018 The Box of Delights[10]
  • Released December 2018
  • Label: Silva Screen (SILCD1547)
  • Formats: CD
 Music by Roger Limb
2019 The Stone Tape[11]
  • Released 13 April 2019
  • Label: Silva Screen (SILLP1548)
  • Formats: 10" green vinyl (limited)
 Music by Desmond Briscoe
2021 La Planète Sauvage[12]
(with Stealing Sheep)
  • Released: 23 November 2021 (limited colored vinyl), 21 January 2022
  • Label: Fire Records (FIRE653)
  • Formats: 2LP, CD
 Re-imaged score for the 1973 animated film Fantastic Planet

Doctor Who soundtrack albums

Year Album details Notes
1978 BBC Sound Effects No. 19 - Doctor Who Sound Effects
  • Released 1978
  • Label: BBC Records (REC 316)
  • Formats: LP, cassette (CS), CD
1983 Doctor Who - The Music
  • Released 1983
  • Label: BBC Records (REH 462)
  • 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 (REH 552)
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
 Reissued on CD in 1992 as The Five Doctors - Classic Music From The BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 2.
1993 Doctor Who: 30 Years at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
  • Released 5 July 1993
  • Label: BBC Records (BBCCD 871)
  • Formats: CD
2000 Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 1: The Early Years 1963–1969
  • Released 2000
  • Label: BBC Music (WMSF 6023-2)
  • Formats: CD
Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 2: New Beginnings 1970–1980
  • Released 2000
  • Label: BBC Music (WMSF 6024-2)
  • Formats: CD
2002 Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 3: The Leisure Hive
  • Released 2002
  • Label: BBC Music (WMSF 6052-2)
  • Formats: CD
 Music and effects by Peter Howell and Dick Mills
Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 4: Meglos & Full Circle
  • Released 2002
  • Label: BBC Music (WMSF 6053-2)
  • Formats: CD
 Music by Paddy Kingsland and Peter Howell
2013 Doctor Who – The Caves of Androzani
  • Released 25 March 2013
  • Label: Silva Screen (SILCD1370)
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP, Download
 Music by Roger Limb
Doctor Who – The Krotons [13]
  • Released 13 May 2013
  • Label: Silva Screen (SILCD1371)
  • Formats: CD, 10" LP, Download
 Special sounds by Brian Hodgson
2018 Doctor Who – The Five Doctors[14]
  • Released 14 September 2018
  • Label: Silva Screen (SILCD1553)
  • Formats: CD, 2-LP[15]
 Music by Peter Howell with special sounds by Dick Mills
2020 Doctor Who – The Visitation[16]
  • Released 1 May 2020
  • Label: Silva Screen (SILCD1570)
  • Formats: CD, Vinyl
 Music by Paddy Kingsland
2023 Doctor Who – Revenge of the Cybermen[17]
  • Released 24 November 2023 (SILCD1585)
  • 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 (REC 225)
  • Formats: LP, CD
 Reissued on CD in 1991 as Essential Science Fiction Sound Effects Vol. 2.
1977 Sound Effects No. 13 – Death & Horror
  • Released 1976
  • Label: BBC Records (REC 269)
  • Formats: LP
 Produced by Mike Harding
1978 Sound Effects No. 21 – More Death & Horror
  • Released 1976
  • Label: BBC Records (REC 340)
  • Formats: LP
 Produced by Mike Harding
1981 BBC Sound Effects No. 26 - Sci-Fi Sound Effects
  • Released 1981
  • Label: BBC Records (REC 420)
  • 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.
1982 Even More Death & Horror – Sound Effects No. 27
  • Released 1982
  • Label: BBC Records (REC 452)
  • Formats: LP
 Produced by Mike Harding
1984 Hi-Tech FX - Sound Effects No.29
  • Released 1984
  • Label: BBC Records (REC 531)
  • 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 (REC 25M)
  • Formats: LP, CD
1975 The Radiophonic Workshop
  • Released 1975
  • Label: BBC Records (REC 196)
  • Formats: LP, CD
1979 BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 21
  • Released 1979
  • Label: BBC Records (REC 354)
  • Formats: LP, CD[18]
1983 The Soundhouse
  • Released 1983
  • Label: BBC Records (REC 467)
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD[19][20]
1990 Essential Death & Horror Sound Effects Vol. 1
  • Released 1990
  • Label: BBC Enterprises (BBC CD 822)
  • 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 (BBC CD 823)
  • 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 (CAT 147 LP)
  • 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 (JBH028CD)
  • Formats:CD, LP
 Music by John Baker
BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective
  • Released November 2008
  • Label: The Grey Area (phonic 3 cd)
  • Formats: CD
2017 Radiophonica
  • Released 10 April 2017
  • Label: Electronic Sound (001)
  • 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 (CAVCD 55)
  • Formats: CD
 Music by Elizabeth Parker, Peter Howell, Roger Limb, Malcolm Clarke and Richard Attree
Undersea World[23]
  • Released 1994
  • Label: Cavendish Music (CAVCD 56)
  • Format: CD
 Music by Elizabeth Parker, Peter Howell, Roger Limb, Malcolm Clarke and Richard Attree
Africa[24]
  • Released 1994
  • Label: Cavendish Music (CAVCD 57)
  • Format: CD
 Music by Peter Howell, Roger Limb, Malcolm Clarke and Richard Attree
Time And Space[25]
  • Released 1994
  • Label: Cavendish Music (CAVCD 58)
  • Format: CD
 Music by Elizabeth Parker, Peter Howell, Roger Limb, and Malcolm Clarke
Ethnic Impressions[26]
  • Released 1994
  • Label: Cavendish Music (CAVCD 59)
  • Format: CD
 Music by Elizabeth Parker, Peter Howell, Roger Limb, Malcolm Clarke and Richard Attree
2012 Retro Electro Music by Paddy Kingsland

Box sets

Year Album details Notes
1993 Radiophonic 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
2020 Four Albums 1968 - 1978[27][28]
  • Released 29 August 2020
  • Label: Silva Screen (SILCD1599)
  • Format: 6-CD
 Box set released for Record Store Day 2020 including:
2023 Inventions for Radio[29][30]
  • Released 8 December 2023
  • Label: Silva Screen (SILLP1598)
  • 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.
2023 "Dalek City Corridor" / "Dalek Control Room" / "Explosion, Tardis Stops" / Inventions For Radio - "The Dreams" (Excerpt) Released with issue 106 of the Electronic Sound magazine.
2024 "Love Without Sound" / "A Revisitation" Radiophonic Workshop remixing tracks by White Noise. Released with issue 118 of the Electronic Sound magazine.

See also

References

  1. ^ The Seasons (booklet). Trunk Records. 2012. JBH043CD.
  2. ^ "Radiophonic Workshop". Bowers & Wilkins / Society of Sound. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  3. ^ Bleep. "The Radiophonic Workshop - Burials In Several Earths - Room 13". bleep.com. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  4. ^ Bleep. "The Radiophonic Workshop - Everything You Can Imagine Is Real - Room 13". Bleep. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  5. ^ "Elizabeth Parker, BBC Radiophonic Workshop - The Living Planet (Music from the BBC TV Series)". greedbag.com. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  6. ^ "Paddy Kingsland - Record Store Day". Record Store Day. Archived from the original on 10 March 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  7. ^ "Radiophonic Workshop". Facebook. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  8. ^ "Possum (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), by The Radiophonic Workshop". The Radiophonic Workshop. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  9. ^ "The Radiophonic Workshop - Possum (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). CD. Bleep". bleep.com. 25 October 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  10. ^ "Roger Limb and The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - The Box Of Delights (Original Television Soundtrack)". Silva Screen Music.
  11. ^ "Desmond Briscoe, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Record Store Day". Record Store Day UK.
  12. ^ "Stealing Sheep and the Radiophonic Workshop – la Planète Sauvage". 15 October 2021.
  13. ^ "New Classic Who Release:The Krotons". Doctor Who Music. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
  14. ^ "DOCTOR WHO - THE INVASION -- SCREEN ARCHIVES ENTERTAINMENT". www.screenarchives.com. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  15. ^ Ayres, Mark (22 February 2018). "Re: Silva Screen releases [Part Two]". The Doctor Who Forum. Archived from the original on 23 February 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  16. ^ "Gallifrey Guardian: Revisiting Vinyl". Doctor Who Magazine. No. 547. Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Panini UK Ltd. February 2020. p. 4.
  17. ^ "SILCD1585 Doctor Who – Revenge Of The Cybermen". www.silvascreen.com.
  18. ^ "Radiophonic Workshop Powers Up On April 22nd". Silva Screen Records. 16 March 2016.
  19. ^ "The Soundhouse". 7 October 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2016 – via Amazon.
  20. ^ "Various Artists - BBC Radiophonic Workshop - The Soundhouse". greedbag.com. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  21. ^ "Issue 28 & CD Bundle - Sold Out - Electronic Sound". electronicsound.co.uk. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  22. ^ Poisoned Planet (booklet). Cavendish Music. 1993. CAV CD 55.
  23. ^ Undersea World (booklet). Cavendish Music. 1993. CAV CD 56.
  24. ^ Africa (booklet). Cavendish Music. 1993. CAV CD 57.
  25. ^ Time and Space (booklet). Cavendish Music. 1993. CAV CD 58.
  26. ^ Ethnic Impressions (booklet). Cavendish Music. 1993. CAV CD 59.
  27. ^ "BBC Radiophonic Workshop, The - Record Store Day". recordstoreday.co.uk. Archived from the original on 3 September 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  28. ^ "Silva Screen Records". www.silvascreen.com.
  29. ^ "Silva Screen Records". www.silvascreen.com.
  30. ^ Screen, Silva. "Barry Bermange, Delia Derbyshire, BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Inventions for Radio. Silva Screen" – via silvascreen.ochre.store.
  31. ^ "Inventions for Radio".
  32. ^ "Proximity Edit, by The Radiophonic Workshop x Rupert Clervaux". The Radiophonic Workshop. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  33. ^ "Issue 43 & Vinyl Bundle - Pre-Order - Electronic Sound". electronicsound.co.uk. Retrieved 4 July 2018.