Radio Newsreel
Radio Newsreel was a news programme produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation between 1940 and 1988,[1] which had as title music the pompous military theme "Imperial Echoes" by Arnold Safroni.[2]
Delia's papers contain 20 sheets of her notes for the creation of a new Radio Newsreel signature tune for producer Harry F. Brown,[3] with work to start 26th July[4] 1963.[5] The work was commissioned in 1962.[3]
The piece was never used and when John Simpson became the new producer of Radio Newsreel in May 1968, "I was a producer now, in charge of entire programmes, including our ageing flagship Radio Newsreel with its delightfully bombastic theme music Imperial Echoes."[6]
In her papers, the piece is referred to as "RNR".
Contents
Papers
DD164000: Typewritten description of the sort of sounds Harry Brown would like & Delia's drawings of tape-splicing schemes
DD164029: Notes "Typewriter Tape"
DD164055: Notes "Tune 1"
DD164114: Notes "8 track" with morse code
DD164127: Notes "1800c/s. wob."
DD164139: Notes "Drums"
DD164157: Notes "Muirhead"
DD164209: Notes "cont."
DD164227: Notes "BOSHS"
DD164239: Notes and diagrams
DD164254: Notes "Dub drums with rhythm"
DD164312: Notes "Tape IV / Tape V / Tape VI"
DD164325: Notes "HUM"
DD164340: Notes and diagrams
DD154626: Diagrams "f+E+n^-2.75 in dBv2"
DD164358: Diagrams "BB & MB"
DD164409: Diagrams "Wh.n piano"
DD164422: Notes "Try"
DD164444: Notes "typewriter" and "Tape 1-19"
Spectrogram
Availability
- First broadcast on 13th May 2017 on BBC Radio 3 as part of the programme Monteverdi 450 at 1:25:55.
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References
- ↑ Radio Newsreel's article on wikipedia.
- ↑ Audio Identities: Radio news themes, imagedissectors.com, 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Tape Library List's entry for TRW 4070: "Radio Newsreel Signature Tune".
- ↑ DD164000: The sort of sounds Harry Brown would like and Delia's drawings of tape-splicing schemes.
- ↑ DD074230: "R.W - 26.7.63": work to be carried out by Delia and colleagues in the following months.
- ↑ John Simpson, Strange places, Questionable people, p.85 on Google Books.
