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The room was full of oscillators, white noise generators and a solitary wobbulator. | The room was full of oscillators, white noise generators and a solitary wobbulator. | ||
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Looking up from a tape-deck, Delia said: "In the three years I have been here | Looking up from a tape-deck, Delia said: "In the three years I have been here | ||
I suppose my most popular accomplishment was doing the electronic setting | I suppose my most popular accomplishment was doing the electronic setting | ||
| − | to Ron Grainer's theme music for | + | to Ron Grainer's theme music for ‘Dr. Who.’" |
Still obviously enthusiastic over her work, she went on: "All my work here | Still obviously enthusiastic over her work, she went on: "All my work here | ||
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Barr's Hill School. I went up to Girton College, Cambridge, to read maths. | Barr's Hill School. I went up to Girton College, Cambridge, to read maths. | ||
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Revision as of 13:42, 1 September 2025
Part of a newspaper article can be seen in Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson series 1 episode 4. In it, Delia says "In the three years I have been here" (she joined the BBC in November 1960) and Doctor Who was first broadcast on 23rd November 1963 which dates the article to 1964.
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Delia makes a hit with ‘Dr. Who’
The room was full of oscillators, white noise generators and a solitary wobbulator.
Delia Derbyshire stretched out a hand, and flicked a knob. A tape faintly whirred and from the three-speakered box came the metallic voice: "Destroy them. Immediately."
The Daleks had spoken.
This was the heart of the B.B.C.'s Radiophonic Workshop at Maida Vale, London. Here in this almost wholly make scientific preserve works 27 years old Delia from Cedars Avenue, Coventry.
Looking up from a tape-deck, Delia said: "In the three years I have been here I suppose my most popular accomplishment was doing the electronic setting to Ron Grainer's theme music for ‘Dr. Who.’"
Still obviously enthusiastic over her work, she went on: "All my work here is with electronic sounds. We make the music take [...]
Barr's Hill School. I went up to Girton College, Cambridge, to read maths. At least that's how it [...]
