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This page lists the tapes found in Delia's attic after she died. THe first four columns are from Mark Ayres' Initial Catalogue of Delia's stuff.

There are also hundreds more of Delia's tapes at the BBC.

Tape	Type	Label	Description
DD001	Cassette	BBC Radiophonic Music	Copy of "Pink Album" (REC25M) - possibly incomplete
DD002	Cassette	"Who N"	Dixons brand C90 cassette, Various tracks, including from Pink Album (REC25M), piano music (not Delia?), White Noise and other stuff
DD003	Cassette	Third Words: The Radio Feature 11/10/1996	Piers Plowright, mention of Inventions for Radio, RWS, DD, and "Evenings of Certain Lives" in last 10 minutes. On B-side, excerpt from "The Afternoon Shift", 28th March 1997, demise of RWS, Peter Howell and Elizabeth Parker.
DD004	Cassette	"Original Masters" 18-20/10/97	Description: Delia Derbyshire interviewed by John Cavanagh, BBC Radio Scotland
DD005	Cassette	Cubism	Cubism, Play for Today (7.10.71), Orpheus.
DD006	Document Wallet (Orange double)	Delia	Various paperwork, letters, RWS list and Delia's comments
DD007	Book, "Science and Music"		1968. By Sir James Jeans
DD008	Book, "Electronic and Computer Music"		1985. Second edition 1993, by Peter Manning
DD009	Copy of CD "Music from the Tomb of the Cybermen"		V-Sat ASTRA 3967
DD010	7" reel, 1/4" tape	"On the Level" Reel 1 of 3	Unit Delta Plus
DD011	7" reel, 1/4" tape	"On the Level" Reel 2 of 3	Unit Delta Plus
DD012	7" reel, 1/4" tape	"On the Level" Reel 3 of 3	Unit Delta Plus
DD013	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Amor Dei Part 1
DD014	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Amor Dei Part 2 & The Dreams Part 1
DD015	7" reel, 1/4" tape	The Dreams Part 2
DD016	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Newley/Howard	Marked "Newley Copy Long Master" and "F. Howerd"
DD017	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Lateef	Box contains Radio Times clippings - "Keyboard Instruments", "Late Gothic Music"
DD018	7" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	Unidentified
DD019	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Prisons 1	Banded master, 7.5 ips
DD020	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Prisons 2	Banded master, 7.5 ips
DD021	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Prisons safety copy
DD022	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Delia: Nature for Elsa From Kal	Various tracks, "Dud's Desert" Master (Dudley Simpson) and makeup
DD023	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Delia: Nature for Elsa From Kal	FX
DD024	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	KPM	"KPM C2 + perc - for oblongs & industrial + Frills
DD025	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Q&Q 2 (?) No label on box	Voice recordings, unedited, unidentified (K&Q2?). See also DD049
DD026	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	No label on box	"Water Penny Studio"; "Speech". Various voice and vocal recordings and treatments. "It is raining womens' voices"
DD027	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	No label on box	Serenade for Wind Instruments, copy of disk
DD028	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	No label on box	Copy of Walter Carlos (?) Arrival of the Queen of Sheba etc
DD029	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Colin's Documentary Side One / Scrapbook	"Colin's Documentary" Notting Hill
DD030	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Talk by R Plomp	Experiments on Tone Perception. Note in box.
DD031	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Amory Kane's LSD	Note in box
DD032	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Mid-Summer Night's Dream	Post Sync "Bottom" 18/12/67
DD033	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Tony Rowlands Demo 71	Ideas for Art Series. Note in box
DD034	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Spare Wind for Raven and Dove	Reel is marked "Spare Wind", but sound is rather more complex. Plus Delaware stuff & "Dance for Noah". Possibly Drama Workshop, Noah, TRW 7336
DD035	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Hamlet Copy Reels 1, 2, 3
DD036	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Methusaleh 1	Methusaleh 1 copy master
DD037	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Methusaleh 2	Methusaleh 2 copy master. National Theatre production, Brian H and Marc Wilkinson (done at Kaleidophon)
DD038	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Medea 1 of 2	Kaleidophon
DD039	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Medea 2 of 2
DD040	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Stratford Macbeth	Possibly makeup materials
DD041	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Copy of Macbeth for Dublin	Box also says "Soft Machine" 28/2/60
DD042	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Macbeth for Dublin?	Note question mark on box
DD043	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Robin Artus	Narration piece, re artist Delacroix
DD044	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	DD Material 5
DD045	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Lowell 1	Lowell Tape 1
DD046	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	DD Material 9	Low thick and Drum etc
ÐD047	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Mummy Daddy I Loathe You	Mummy Daddy I Loathe You, Centred & B/G. See also DD054 (Really DD055)
DD048	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	DD Material 11
DD049	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	K&Q 2 (?)	Voice recordigs, unedited, unidentified (K&Q2). See also DD025
DD050	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	K&Q - 1st take	Voice recordings, unedited, unidentified (K&Q)
DD051	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Lowell 3
DD052	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Lowell 2	Lowell Tape 2
DD053	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Recorded tape for reuse	Music, VCS3's? Some is Dudley-esque. May just be qash [sic] tape for re-use. (Tail out)
DD054	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	Voices unidentified (Timothy West?). See also DD047
DD055	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	More "I loathe you" (ref DD047) Tail out
DD056	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	More "I loathe you" (ref DD047) Tail out
DD057	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	More "I loathe you" (ref DD047) Tail out
DD058	16mm film silent print	Tutankhamun Obelisk Erection	(Archive has been checked; full programme exists)
DD059	16mm film silent print	Chronicle: Pompeii	Sequence for Radiophonics (Archive has been checked; full programme exists)
DD060	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Unclear	synthy stuff
DD061	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Copy of Who sig sent to Enterprises 9/12/63
DD062	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Ways of Seeing, many takes	TRW 7448 (it says 7748 in the Initial Catalogue)
DD063	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	George Newson piece	"This Gap of Time"? Radio recording?
DD064	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Makeup for Amor Dei (Source Tape?)	Clusters. Vowels basic. (TRW 6098)
DD065	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Vin track	Odd trippy song and filtered violins track
DD066	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Copy of Who sig sent to Enterprises 9/12/63
DD067	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Long Piece. Titles? Prophet? Dramatic Organ Stuff. Soaring Sounds. Flutey.	Doesn't sound like Delia!
DD068	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Singing Waters. Voice tapes.	Related to DD026
DD069	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Singing Waters	Related to DD026
DD070	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Blue Veil flute	For Blue Veils and Golden Sands?
DD071	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Lampshade, Blue Veils	"The Delian Mode" (*not* Blue Veils). Long version, or makeup.
DD072	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Call Sign?	Various takes
DD073	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Good sinister background
DD074	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Dramatic Sci Fi Cue (etc)	Dramatic Sci Fi Cue, High Flute, Hi Ploppy Random, Double speed E minor spiral blip, Low E minor bloops
DD075	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Brief Lives	TRW 6792?
DD076	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	IE100 Makeup [sic. should be I.E.E.100]	inc. Morse and archive recordings, Gladstone etc. Ref. TRW 7397
DD077	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Ron Grainer Music, On The Level	Relays
DD078	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Male drone	Used in Tutankhamun piece?
DD079	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Cilla Mouse on Moon, Zizwiz	(Tail out)
DD080	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Early Kaleidophon Demo	London Lemons, Newley (Moojies Bloodgies) etc. Speed changes.
DD081	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Master b/g 1	Unknown (poss. Tail out)
DD082	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Master foreground I	Etc. Unknown
DD083	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Master foreground II	Etc. Unknown
DD084	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Paddy Kingsland "Tamariu"	Track from "Fourth Dimension" - Paddy Kingsland. Seems to be copy master.
DD085	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Short Wave Listeners Corner	Introduced by Dorothy Logan, Laurence Spicer interviews Delia Derbyshire. Possibly [[TRW 6166] or 6300 - to crosscheck
DD086	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Miscellaneous	Low String etc (sounds)
DD087	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Big Bell (etc)	Various sounds
DD088	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	Ticking. Big chords (multicolourtone organ?)
DD089	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Effects, Ballard (?)	Poss TRW 7281
DD090	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Penderecki: De Natura Sonoris	7.5ips. Maida Vale Concert recording - played twice
DD091	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	24 Hours	Tail out. Label is probably irrelevant. More "Singing Waters" (DD026 etc)
DD092	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Treated flute, Waters Pastoral
DD093	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Waltz, London Bridge, ARP
DD094	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Edits	Synthy stuff, poss. Dudley Simpson? Ogron guns? Reverses part way through. Almost definitely some Doctor Who stuff. Probably intended as gash tape, but check contents. At least a third of the reel is silent.
DD095	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	High Stuff on 2nd Half. Poss feedback tape	Label is BH's. As he says, possibly used as feedback tape.
DD096	5" reel, 1/4" tape	Pilot Piano Master	7.5ips. Very fluttery. In cine box. Unidentified.
DD097	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Chuckles	Does what it says on the tin
DD098	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Treated Lyre, 8-track battle
DD099	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	R/Port OB Rough Finals	Unknown
DD100	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	"2001 Chord" etc	Various unknown
DD101	5" reel, 1/4" tape	Delia Small Tape 1	Unknown production (notes in this box, reel 5 is missing)
DD102	5" reel, 1/4" tape	Delia Small Tape 2	Unknown production
DD103	5" reel, 1/4" tape	Delia Small Tape 3	Unknown production
DD104	5" reel, 1/4" tape	Delia Small Tape 4	Unknown production
DD105	5" reel, 1/4" tape	Delia Small Tape 6	Unknown production
DD106	5" reel, 1/4" tape	Delia Small Tape 7	Unknown production
DD107	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Irrelevant [sic] label	Flute and lute etc, then sounds. Unidentified. Insects?
DD108	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Rising notes etc	Unknown
DD109	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Who Closing	Delaware theme version - various makeup bits
DD110	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Various!	Various whole-tone loops etc
DD111	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Noah's Dance basic	Makeup for Dance of Noah. TRW 7336. See also DD034
DD112	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	G Macbeth speech	George Macbeth? TRW 7256? (Report from Trieste - Modest Atmosphere with Monsters, Brian Aldis)
DD113	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	Unidentified various
DD114	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Harp Mat. 1	Harp material, unidentified
DD115	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	V.P. [V.A.]	Unidentified, synthi, Beethoven's 5th-like
DD116	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Tempest	Copy of production at 3 3/4 ips.
DD117	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Bell type mat.	Bell-type material
DD118	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	Dance from Noah. TRW 7336. See also DD034 & DD111
DD119	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	Various harpy things
DD120	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Sig of something (BH label)	Unidentified
DD121	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Copy of? (BH label)	Unidentified (tail out)
DD122	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	Unidentified rhythmic piece etc
DD123	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	synthi stuff (see also DD126)
DD124	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Copy thin master long & short	Bach. Masters followed by separate bass and top lines
DD125	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Sun crescs etc	Purpose unknown
DD126	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	synthi stuff (as DD123)
DD127	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	High synthi line. Very short. Unidentified
DD128	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	High synthi line. Very short. Unidentified
DD129	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	"Work is..." Loops	See also DD110
DD130	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Kevin 1	Tail out. Unidentified rock music
DD131	7" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	More unidentified rock music
DD132	7" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	Interview with Anthony Mendleson, costume designer (The Boys from Brazil), Reason unknown
DD133	4" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	Various voice recordings, including political speech (confirm ident) and Delia's voice
DD134	5" reel, 1/4" tape	Medea, 1st Working Tape	3 tam-tams, 4 Medea speeches, 7.5ips, Kaleidophon box
DD135	5" reel, 1/4" tape	Time on my Hands, Dietrich	Marlene Dietrich
DD136	5" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	Unidentified electronic music (brassy sounds). Kaleidophon? Vorhaus?
DD137	5" reel, 1/4" tape	Atmos Indian Macbeth	Various sounds inc. Dalek Corridor
DD138	6" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	1/4 track 3 3/4 ips. Various unidentified classical recordings.
DD139	5" reel, 1/4" tape	C-W&T Lion Basic Voice - 1st group (Mike)	m/u and treatments. Unit Delta Plus box
DD140	5" reel, 1/4" tape	Radio Brighton Train Idents	TRW 7341. Ideas. Memo in box.
DD141	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Newley 1	Moojies Bloodgies. Copies of master and makeup. Unit Delta Plus, mixture of speeds. Note on box says "list in file".
DD142	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Newley 2	Moojies Bloodgies. Makeup. Unit Delta Plus.
DD143	7" reel, 1/4" tape	The Cloud 1 of 2 & Moodgies Bluedgies 3 of 3	Unit Delta Plus, Spoken word and atmospheres
DD144	5" reel, 1/4" tape	C-W&T Lion Basic Voice - 2nd group	Unit Delta Plus box
DD145	7" reel, 1/4" tape	BHBG Copy	Various Brian Hodgson Dr Who backgrounds, montage.
DD146	7" reel, 1/4" tape	"Oh, Fat White Woman" Speech Tape	7.5 ips. Session tape, with direction. See also DD154
DD147	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Fragments, Tarantella, Pot Pourri, Newley	Reel is marked "broken and sticky, do not play", and it means it. Treat with care.
DD148	7" reel, 1/4" tape	One Under The Eight	Stereo version
DD149	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Methuselah 3	Copy master 7.5 ips
DD150	7" reel, 1/4" tape	1/2" track Mozart	In terrible condition, possibly tail out
DD151	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Parmenter etc	Unidentified voices
DD152	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Military band 7.5ips
DD153	7" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	largely blank tape with VCS3 wibbling at top and tail
DD154	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Speech 7.5ips	Fat White Woman treated - See DD146
DD155	7" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	1/4 track 3 3/4 ips. Various unidentified classical recordings
DD156	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Hamlet Reel 2 of Makeup. Music & FX
DD157	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Hamlet Reel 3 of Makeup	Various notes in box
DD158	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Macbeth Dublin Makeup
DD159	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Medea Copy 1st Working Tape	Tam-tam etc
DD160	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Egypt. Copy master Opening and Programme 1	Tutankhamun's Trumpet etc. TRW 7529. N.B. is missing from RWS Archive. Contains Delia's voice.
DD161	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Tutankhamun's Egypt - New Cues	TRW 7529. Is missing from RWS archive. ox states, "Music for Tut's Egypt Pt 2". Personal note in box gives cues as m3b, m5, m8, m6 with footages, "all new mixes as requested, love Roger & Delia"
DD162	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Ron Grainer, "Bread", 15ps NAB master
DD163	10.5" reel, 1/4" tape	Tea Party EMUS	E.M.U. 2. TRW 6018? Or TRW 6246?
DD164	10.5" reel, 1" 8-track	Delia	Unknown contents - to check (gets off to am interesting start, but this is followed by yards of click-tracks with nothing against them)
DD165	3.25" reel, 1/4" tape	Stockhausen Study 2
DD166	5" reel, 1/4" tape	Ray Davies "Make Free"
DD167	5" reel, 1/4" tape	OED/TR 90 VI	Speech. Ringo Starr? Vampire count?
DD168	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Joshua Rifkin play Scott Joplin	Copy of record
DD169	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Goon Show (BH label)	Fiddle playing. Why "Goon Show"?
DD170	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Demo Tape 15ips	?? Lecture tape. See also DD203
DD171	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Amor Dei 3.75ips Copy	Reel 1 of 1. TRW 1098
DD172	5" reel, 1/4" tape	Science and Health Listening Copy
DD173	7" reel, 1/4" tape	No label	Copy of stereo workout disk
DD174	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Chains (?)	7.5ips copy to play. To be identified
DD175	6" reel, 1/4" tape	"Choral Symph"	Label irrelevant, unidentified rock music, tail out
DD176	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Copy Random Delther (Random Together?)	Title? Chinagraph unreadable!
DD177	7" reel, 1/4" tape	labels unreadable	"Information Please" - how is electronic music made? At about 5.30 into reel. Interview with Delia Derbyshire. TRW 6160? (missing from RWS archive). 7.5ips
DD178	7" tape box - empty	Last installment of electronic sound for Robert Lowell film	Kaleidophon box - various notes in Delia's handwriting. See DD045?
DD179	5" reel, 1/4" tape	Extracts from Brighton Festival, Lively Arts	Unit Delta Plus 15ips
DD180	5" reel, 1/4" tape	ADS Demo (YAMCO)	Brian Hodgson voice, 7.5ips. See also DD066. Kaleidophon box
DD181	4 1/4" tape loops	Prog 21 Rhythm loops ?	Label pretty much unreadable. Box originally contained four loose tape loops (this is the original box), but they have been split between this box (DD181a) and DD181b
DD182	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Palmolive, Mouse on the Moon (copy)	Unit Delta Plus
DD183	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Cecil Wright & Topping Show Fil. Copy 7.5ips full track and makeup	TARDIS computer sound at start. Unit Delta Plus.
DD184	7" reel, 1/4" tape	ICI Fashion Show Makeup tape 1	Sound effects. Including many lifted from Doctor Who
DD185	7" reel, 1/4" tape	ICI Fashion Show Makeup tape 2	Sound effects. Mainly reused from other sources to be identified.
DD186	5" reel, 1/4" tape	Bank extracts from tape a	In 7" Kaleidophon box. Unidentified rock song plus sounds
DD187	5" reel, 1/4" tape	Bank prelim. not used	In 7" Kaleidophon box
DD188	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Way Out (F. Howerd)	Unit Delta Plus. Familiar rhythm which needs tracing back! Various bands, tape is very sticky and needs TLC
DD189	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Zygoat Side 1	Burt Alcantara (to be checked). Electrophon
DD190	7" reel, 1/4" tape	Zygoat Side 2	Burt Alcantara (to be checked). Electrophon
DD191	5" reel, 1/4" tape	I have decoded you - Anthony Newley
DD192	7" reel, 1/4" tape	String pt.6 (66); Film Music (electronic) (67)	Unidentified
DD193	7" reel, 1/4" tape	SF copy masters BTR 2	15ips. "Pot Au Feu" original source to be identified
DD194	7" reel, 1/4" tape	The Cloud 2 of 2; F Chagrin; S Brown	Unit Delta Plus. Sounds. F Chagrin = Francis Chagrin?
DD195	5" reel, 1/4" tape	London Lemons, Master & Makeup	Unit Delta Plus?
DD196	5" reel, 1/4" tape	U.D.P. Demo 7.5ips listening	Unit Delta Plus Demo. On the Level, London Lemons, Newley etc. Note in box.
DD197	5" reel, 1/4" tape	Wendy Jones, Throat Cancer	Speech. Frederick Whitehead - re. Artificial electronic larynx. Probably research for Cyberman voices. Note in box addressed to Brian Hodgson.
DD198	5" reel, 1/4" tape	On the level, demo nos
DD199	5" reel, 1/4" tape	Work is a 4 letter word	c/p Peter Hall/Richard Hiscox. Demonstration rough mix of cue 10m1. 15ips
DD200	5" reel, 1/4" tape	Who Is. Master and makeup