Time On Our Hands - Revision history

Martinwguy at 20:42, 21 October 2025

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	The programme was produced by [[Don Haworth]] and directed by [[Pieter Morpurgo]]<ref name=bfi/> and is described as a		The programme was produced by [[Don Haworth]] and directed by [[Pieter Morpurgo]]<ref name=bfi/> and is described as a
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	Documentary made in 1963, which projected the viewer 25 years into the future to 14th Sept. 1988, to look back over the events of the past 25 years. With Kingsley Amis, Stafford Beer, [[Aldous Huxley]], Franklin Medhurst and Raymond Williams.<ref name=bfi>[http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/370300 The British Film Institute's Film & TV Database's entry for ''Time On Our Hands'']</ref>		Documentary made in 1963, which projected the viewer 25 years into the future to 14th Sept. 1988, to look back over the events of the past 25 years. With Kingsley Amis, Stafford Beer, [[Aldous Huxley]], Franklin Medhurst and Raymond Williams<ref name=bfi>[http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/370300 The British Film Institute's Film & TV Database's entry for ''Time On Our Hands'']</ref>
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			and
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			from a television documentary about the problems of increased leisure time in the automated world of the future.<ref>[[BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective]] booklet, notes for track 16.</ref>
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Martinwguy: /* See also */

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Martinwguy at 21:21, 5 February 2023

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	<I>I had only done one other television programme before [[Doctor Who]], called [[Time On Our Hands]], using beautiful abstract electronic sounds. So I was very inexperienced, but making something from nothing was my secret.</I><ref>The [[Soundhouse interview]]</ref>		<I>I had only done one other television programme before [[Doctor Who]], called [[Time On Our Hands]], using beautiful abstract electronic sounds. So I was very inexperienced, but making something from nothing was my secret.</I><ref>The [[Soundhouse interview]]</ref>
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	In 2008, a second piece made by Delia for the programme was published on [[The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective]], entitled ''[[City Music]]'', presumably her incidental music for scenes inside the programme.

	=Copyright=		=Copyright=
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	* Two extracts of the programme are among the whitefiles' [https://whitefiles.org/rwv/index.htm Radiophonic Workshop Videos], the first of 10 minutes with her title music and [[City Music]], the second of 30 seconds with more of her music as the background.		* Two extracts of the programme are among the whitefiles' [https://whitefiles.org/rwv/index.htm Radiophonic Workshop Videos], the first of 10 minutes with her title music and [[City Music]], the second of 30 seconds with more of her music as the background.

			=See also=
			Two further pieces made by Delia as incidental music for the programme are:
			* ''[[City Music]]'' and
			* ''[[Factory Music]]''

	= References =		= References =

Martinwguy at 21:06, 5 February 2023

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	=External links=		=External links=
	* Two extracts of the programme are among the whitefiles' [https://whitefiles.org/rwv/index.htm Radiophonic Workshop Videos]		* Two extracts of the programme are among the whitefiles' [https://whitefiles.org/rwv/index.htm Radiophonic Workshop Videos], the first of 10 minutes with her title music and [[City Music]], the second of 30 seconds with more of her music as the background.

	= References =		= References =

Martinwguy: /* Availability */

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Availability

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	* In the BBC Sound Archive on [[TRW 4]]: "Examples of work 1961-1964".<ref>The [[Tape Library List]] catalogue entry for [[TRW 4]].</ref>		* In the BBC Sound Archive on [[TRW 4]]: "Examples of work 1961-1964".<ref>The [[Tape Library List]] catalogue entry for [[TRW 4]].</ref>
	{{Play\|Time On Our Hands\|from vinyl [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 21]]}}		{{Play\|Time On Our Hands\|from vinyl [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 21]]}}

			=External links=
			* Two extracts of the programme are among the whitefiles' [https://whitefiles.org/rwv/index.htm Radiophonic Workshop Videos]

	= References =		= References =

Martinwguy: /* Copyright */

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	=Copyright=		=Copyright=
	Under UK law, ~~all~~ audio recordings made before 1963 are in the public domain.		Under UK law, audio recordings made before 1963 are in the public domain.<ref name=OMAFAQ>[http://www.openmusicarchive.org/faq.php The Open Music Archive's FAQ].</ref>

	=Papers=		=Papers=

Martinwguy at 13:48, 23 December 2021

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	In 2008, a second piece made by Delia for the programme was published on [[The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective]], entitled ''[[City Music]]'', presumably her incidental music for scenes inside the programme.		In 2008, a second piece made by Delia for the programme was published on [[The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective]], entitled ''[[City Music]]'', presumably her incidental music for scenes inside the programme.

			=Copyright=
			Under UK law, all audio recordings made before 1963 are in the public domain.

	=Papers=		=Papers=

Martinwguy at 14:40, 22 January 2019

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			Robin Carmody writes:
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	One of her earliest contributions - "Time On Our Hands" - is a superb		One of her earliest contributions - "Time On Our Hands" - is a superb
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			and Delia said:
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	<I>I had only done one other television programme before [[Doctor Who]], called [[Time On Our Hands]], using beautiful abstract electronic sounds. So I was very inexperienced, but making something from nothing was my secret.</I><ref>The [[Soundhouse interview]]</ref>		<I>I had only done one other television programme before [[Doctor Who]], called [[Time On Our Hands]], using beautiful abstract electronic sounds. So I was very inexperienced, but making something from nothing was my secret.</I><ref>The [[Soundhouse interview]]</ref>

Martinwguy at 14:40, 22 January 2019

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	[[Time On Our Hands]] is Delia's theme music, created in 1962, for a 70-minute BBC television documentary of the same name "on the problems of increased leisure in the automated world of the future. Pure electronic sound."<ref>The [[Tape Library List]].</ref>		[[Time On Our Hands]] is Delia's theme music, created in 1962, for a 70-minute BBC television documentary of the same name "on the problems of increased leisure in the automated world of the future. Pure electronic sound."<ref>The [[Tape Library List]].</ref>

			The programme was produced by [[Don Haworth]] and directed by [[Pieter Morpurgo]]<ref name=bfi/> and is described as a
			<BLOCKQUOTE>
			Documentary made in 1963, which projected the viewer 25 years into the future to 14th Sept. 1988, to look back over the events of the past 25 years. With Kingsley Amis, Stafford Beer, [[Aldous Huxley]], Franklin Medhurst and Raymond Williams.<ref name=bfi>[http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/370300 The British Film Institute's Film & TV Database's entry for ''Time On Our Hands'']</ref>
			</BLOCKQUOTE>

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	of 1962) new-found affluence, spare time and leisure, now rendered alienated,		of 1962) new-found affluence, spare time and leisure, now rendered alienated,
	distant and isolated.<ref>Robin Carmody in [[Wee have also sound-houses (article)\|Wee also have sound-houses]]</ref>		distant and isolated.<ref>Robin Carmody in [[Wee have also sound-houses (article)\|Wee also have sound-houses]]</ref>
	~~</BLOCKQUOTE>~~

	~~The programme was produced by [[Don Haworth]] and directed by [[Pieter Morpurgo]]<ref name=bfi/> and is described as a~~
	~~<BLOCKQUOTE>~~
	Documentary made in 1963, which projected the viewer 25 years into the future to 14th Sept. 1988, to look back over the events of the past 25 years. With Kingsley Amis, Stafford Beer, [[Aldous Huxley]], Franklin Medhurst and Raymond Williams.<ref name=bfi>[http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/370300 The British Film Institute's Film & TV Database's entry for ''Time On Our Hands'']</ref>
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Martinwguy at 14:38, 22 January 2019

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	[[Time On Our Hands]] is Delia's theme music, created in 1962, for a 70-minute BBC television documentary of the same name "on the problems of increased leisure in the automated world of the future. Pure electronic sound."<ref>The [[Tape Library List]].</ref>		[[Time On Our Hands]] is Delia's theme music, created in 1962, for a 70-minute BBC television documentary of the same name "on the problems of increased leisure in the automated world of the future. Pure electronic sound."<ref>The [[Tape Library List]].</ref>

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	=See also=		=See also=
	~~Two further~~ pieces ~~made by Delia as~~ incidental music for the programme ~~are~~:		Delia also made two pieces of incidental music for the programme:
	* ''[[City Music]]'' and		* ''[[City Music]]'' and
	* ''[[Factory Music]]''		* ''[[Factory Music]]''