The Man Who Collected Sounds
Delia created "music effects" for a radio drama[1] The Man Who Collected Sounds by Douglas Cleverdon. He describes it as "A couple of song cycles set by George Newson to poems by Leonard Smith [... an] ambitious dramatic feature for radio. It is equally ambitious in its radiophonic exploitation of sounds and voices".[2]
The review article says "The hero, armed with the sounds of Good Government and Perfect Love, pursues pre-Raphaelite, mystical Avalon among the fascist politics of small-town California.", which is a strange coincidence with Delia's music for The Business of Good Government and her "Perfect Love" theme used in O Fat White Woman.
Its tape's catalogue entry is dated 1964, but George first went to the Radiophonic Workshop and worked with Delia in 1966, the year the radio programme was broadcast[3] on the 8th of June.[1]
Credits[2]
- Words by Leonard Smith
- Music by George Newson
- The Young Man: Denis Quilley
- Paul Lincoln Demarest: Eric Shilling
- Avalon: Dorothy Dorow
- The Woman: Tucker McGuire
- The Sheriff: Tommy Duggan
- The Mayor: Stuart Nichol
- Narrator: Allan McClelland
- with: Walter Fitzgerald, Stephen Jack, Preston Lockwood, Elizabeth Proud, Betty Huntley-Wright
- The Orchestra conducted by Graham Treacher
- Harmonica played by Alfie Kahn
- with additional music effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
- Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
Availability
- Broadcast on Wednesday[4] at 8.55[2] and repeated on June 28 (of which year?)
- Broadcast on BBC Radio's Third Programme on 8th June 1966,[1] which was indeed a Wednesday.
- In the BBC Sound Archive on tape TRW 6192: "The Man Who Collected Sounds"[1]
- In the BBC Sound Archive on tape TRW 7065: "The Man Who Collected Sounds (for Germany), copy of TRW 6192"[5]
- On Attic Tape DD063: "Newson piece"[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 The Tape Library List's entry for TRW 6192.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 DD110532: Clipping from the Radio Times for its first broadcast, together with an article by Douglas Cleverdon.
- ↑ Personal communication, June 2019.
- ↑ DD110156: A newspaper article The Sound Barrier which reviews the programme
- ↑ The Tape Library List's entry for TRW 7065.
- ↑ The Initial Catalogue's entry for DD063
