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There's loads to do on the WikiDelia. If you'd like to help out, you can
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There's loads to do on the WikiDelia.
* [mailto:delia.derbyshire.net@gmail.com email me] for a free wikidelia-editing account
 
* work on one of the non-wiki-writing items and mail me the results
 
* make a donation to ensure the WikiDelia's continued existence in the future. Every $6 extends its life by a month.
 
 
 
=Admin=
 
* See if NPR have [[The Autocrats]]
 
  
 
=Writing the wikidelia=
 
=Writing the wikidelia=
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* [mailto:delia.derbyshire.net@gmail.com email me] for a free wikidelia-editing account
 
* Insert the entry dates from the [[TRW]] entries into the [[Chronology]] from 6604 on.
 
* Insert the entry dates from the [[TRW]] entries into the [[Chronology]] from 6604 on.
 
* Insert the TX dates from the [[TRW]] entries into the [[Chronology]] from 6322 on.
 
* Insert the TX dates from the [[TRW]] entries into the [[Chronology]] from 6322 on.
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* Transcribe interviews from [[The Delian Mode (film)]]
 
* Transcribe interviews from [[The Delian Mode (film)]]
 
* Transcribe the poems proposed for [[Poets in Prison]] (or the ones that Delia appears to have used)
 
* Transcribe the poems proposed for [[Poets in Prison]] (or the ones that Delia appears to have used)
* Process the [http://www.7inch.org.uk/event/towards-tomorrow/delia-archive-gallery/0/ Delia Archive gallery on 7 inch cinema]
 
 
* Process [http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/07/archivist-responds-yes-virginia-delia-derbyshire-really-was-that-awesome/ David Butler's post on createdigitalmusic.com] about the archive
 
* Process [http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/07/archivist-responds-yes-virginia-delia-derbyshire-really-was-that-awesome/ David Butler's post on createdigitalmusic.com] about the archive
 
* Process [[The BBC Radiophonic Workshop: The First 25 Years]] and copy details to the pieces' pages
 
* Process [[The BBC Radiophonic Workshop: The First 25 Years]] and copy details to the pieces' pages
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* Check that the publisher in the [[PRS records]] pages is in the Copyright section for each piece.
 
* Check that the publisher in the [[PRS records]] pages is in the Copyright section for each piece.
 
* Sort out the various versions of [[Doctor Who]] from the entries in [[TRW]]. See also [[Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Volume 1: The Early Years]] for canonical track names.
 
* Sort out the various versions of [[Doctor Who]] from the entries in [[TRW]]. See also [[Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Volume 1: The Early Years]] for canonical track names.
* Add photos for [[49 Deodar Road]]
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* Add other photos for [[49 Deodar Road]] from [[Unit Delta Plus]]
 
* Process the full interview texts with Mark Ayres, Brian Hodgson and Peter Zinovieff on [http://www.radionz.co.nz/concert/programmes/hopefulmachines/20130910 These Hopeful Machines] website.
 
* Process the full interview texts with Mark Ayres, Brian Hodgson and Peter Zinovieff on [http://www.radionz.co.nz/concert/programmes/hopefulmachines/20130910 These Hopeful Machines] website.
* Figure out which [[ESL104]] tracks are used where in [[Work is a Four Letter Work]].
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* In progress 2021-06
* Add a one-line summary to each of the entries in [[Medialink library#Files]].
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** Add a one-line summary to each of the entries in [[Medialink library#Files]].
* Add the identifiable high-res scans from the [[Medialink library]] to their relevant pages' info.
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** Add the identifiable high-res scans from the [[Medialink library]] to their relevant pages' info.
 
* Transcribe the lyrics for the 4 pieces of [[Amor Dei]].
 
* Transcribe the lyrics for the 4 pieces of [[Amor Dei]].
 
* Process the [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry]]
 
* Process the [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry]]
 
* Add availability entries to the pages for items on [[TRW 4]] and [[TRW 5]]
 
* Add availability entries to the pages for items on [[TRW 4]] and [[TRW 5]]
 
* Update PRS-only pieces from extra info in [[PRS records]]
 
* Update PRS-only pieces from extra info in [[PRS records]]
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* Add Niebur and Percival descriptions to tapes from DD216 on
  
 
=Research=
 
=Research=
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* Retrieve ''The Times'' article from 16th January 1968 reviewing [[Pot Pourri]] at the [[Queen Elizabeth Hall]] concert.
 
* Retrieve ''The Times'' article from 16th January 1968 reviewing [[Pot Pourri]] at the [[Queen Elizabeth Hall]] concert.
 
* Find the article about the [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop]] published in the magazine "Tatlers" on 12th May 1965.
 
* Find the article about the [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop]] published in the magazine "Tatlers" on 12th May 1965.
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* Find a copy of the Record Collector Magazine interview in 1997
 
==At Manchester==
 
==At Manchester==
 
* Get a better scan of [[The Dark Ages]] glossy magazine article for the photo of Briscoe and Delia. Library catalogue number GB 133 DDA/1/5/19.
 
* Get a better scan of [[The Dark Ages]] glossy magazine article for the photo of Briscoe and Delia. Library catalogue number GB 133 DDA/1/5/19.
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=Scores to typeset=
 
=Scores to typeset=
The following pieces are only known from their scores, so typesetting one will resurrect an otherwise lost piece.
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The following pieces are only known from their scores, so typesetting one will resurrect an otherwise lost piece:
* [[Science Serves the Arts]]
 
 
* [[CH3NH4]]
 
* [[CH3NH4]]
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* [[Joan Elliott Calls]]
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* [[Last Year]]
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* [[Living Lessons]]
 
* [[Martinis]]
 
* [[Martinis]]
 
* [[Mathematics Around You]]
 
* [[Mathematics Around You]]
* [[Living Lessons]]
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* [[Music to Midnight]]
* [[Poets in Prison#War]] and [[Poets in Prison#Intro]]  
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* [[Poets in Prison#War]] and [[Poets in Prison#Intro]]
and
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* [[Science Serves the Arts]]
* Add the missing musical notes and complete [[Ape - Hunt Group A (score)]]
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* [[Spin]]
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These need completing:
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* [[Easter 64]]
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* [[Peter]] from [[DD170314]] (and create its page)
 
* Retypeset Audio12's Sibelius score for [[Science and Health]] in Lilypond
 
* Retypeset Audio12's Sibelius score for [[Science and Health]] in Lilypond
The following are good candidates for conventional scoring:
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and the following pieces are good candidates for conventional scoring from their spectrograms:
 
* [[Environmental Studies]]
 
* [[Environmental Studies]]
  
=Audio to recover=  
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=Audio to recover=
 
==Radio programmes==
 
==Radio programmes==
 
* [[The Cyprian Queen]] broadcast 2nd March 1964 at 8:30pm on the Home Service
 
* [[The Cyprian Queen]] broadcast 2nd March 1964 at 8:30pm on the Home Service
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** 1 November 1967 20.35 on BBC Radio 3
 
** 1 November 1967 20.35 on BBC Radio 3
 
** 2 November 1969 14.30 on BBC Radio 4 FM
 
** 2 November 1969 14.30 on BBC Radio 4 FM
* [[The Coming of the Car]], episode of BBC Radio for Schools series "The Modern World" broadcast 9th November 1966
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* [[The Coming of the Car]], episode of BBC Radio for Schools series "The Modern World" broadcast
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** 9th November 1966
 
* [[A Year I Remember]]: A Silence filled with Greek, broadcast
 
* [[A Year I Remember]]: A Silence filled with Greek, broadcast
 
** 17th January 1967 at 7:30pm on the BBC Third Programme
 
** 17th January 1967 at 7:30pm on the BBC Third Programme
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* [[Ape and Essence]], ''The Wednesday Play'' series 1, episode 61, broadcast 18 May 1966 at 9.00pm on BBC1
 
* [[Ape and Essence]], ''The Wednesday Play'' series 1, episode 61, broadcast 18 May 1966 at 9.00pm on BBC1
 
* [[Take Another Note]], broadcast on BBC One London, 6th September 1966
 
* [[Take Another Note]], broadcast on BBC One London, 6th September 1966
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* [[Johnny's Jaunt]], sept 1966, published on cassette or from off-air recordings
 
* [[The Prophet]] 1st January 1967 at 10.05pm on BBC2 as Delia says "I did the music for the whole programme."
 
* [[The Prophet]] 1st January 1967 at 10.05pm on BBC2 as Delia says "I did the music for the whole programme."
 
* [[In Your Own Words]], broadcast on BBC One from 6th April to 10th June 1967
 
* [[In Your Own Words]], broadcast on BBC One from 6th April to 10th June 1967
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* The [http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections/introduction-bfi-collections/bfi-mediatheques/bfi-mediatheques-around-uk British Film Institute mediatheques in UK cities] have [http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections/introduction-bfi-collections/bfi-mediatheques/all-mediatheque-films 2500 programmes] but you have to go there in person.
 
* The [http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections/introduction-bfi-collections/bfi-mediatheques/bfi-mediatheques-around-uk British Film Institute mediatheques in UK cities] have [http://www.bfi.org.uk/archive-collections/introduction-bfi-collections/bfi-mediatheques/all-mediatheque-films 2500 programmes] but you have to go there in person.
 
* [http://www.gettyimages.com/bbcmotiongallery The BBC Motion Gallery at Getty Images]
 
* [http://www.gettyimages.com/bbcmotiongallery The BBC Motion Gallery at Getty Images]
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==Album tracks==
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* The shorter version of [[Firebird]] on vinyl (2:46 instead of the CD's 3:00)
  
 
==In libraries/institutions==
 
==In libraries/institutions==
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==On the Radiophonic Workshop tapes==
 
==On the Radiophonic Workshop tapes==
 
* [[TRW 5]]: [[Famous Gossips]], [[Out of the Unknown - Title Music]], Signature tune for [[Munich Radio]], an excerpt from [[An ABC in Sound]], [[One Hundred Faces of J.S. Bach]], Closing sequence of [[Ape and Essence]], "Niagara Falls" from [[German Concrete Poetry]]
 
* [[TRW 5]]: [[Famous Gossips]], [[Out of the Unknown - Title Music]], Signature tune for [[Munich Radio]], an excerpt from [[An ABC in Sound]], [[One Hundred Faces of J.S. Bach]], Closing sequence of [[Ape and Essence]], "Niagara Falls" from [[German Concrete Poetry]]
* [[TRW 18]]: "Alphabet Poetry" (Bob Cobbins poems); [[Sono Montage]] (TRW 6373), [[Jandl]] (TRW 6931)
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* [[TRW 18]]: "Alphabet Poetry" (Bob Cobbins poems); [[Sono Montage]] (TRW 6373)
 
* [[TRW 6062]]: [[The Cyprian Queen]]
 
* [[TRW 6062]]: [[The Cyprian Queen]]
 
* [[TRW 6061]]: [[The Dark Ages]] with excerpts on [[TRW 7059]]
 
* [[TRW 6061]]: [[The Dark Ages]] with excerpts on [[TRW 7059]]
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* [[DD215]]: [[Wildlife Safari to the Argentine|"Wildlife, Argentina"]]
 
* [[DD215]]: [[Wildlife Safari to the Argentine|"Wildlife, Argentina"]]
 
* [[DD221]]: "[[Angela's Ballet]] 1 master"
 
* [[DD221]]: "[[Angela's Ballet]] 1 master"
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* [[DD257]]: [[Badinerie]]
 
* [[DD260]]: [[I.E.E.100]] and makeup tape [[DD076]]
 
* [[DD260]]: [[I.E.E.100]] and makeup tape [[DD076]]
 
* [[DD263]]: An off-air recording of most of the programme about Cubism containing [[Le Pont Mirabeau]]
 
* [[DD263]]: An off-air recording of most of the programme about Cubism containing [[Le Pont Mirabeau]]
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* Check the interview with Ian Fairbairn about [[The Macra Terror]] in the torrent.
 
* Check the interview with Ian Fairbairn about [[The Macra Terror]] in the torrent.
 
* Select the best audio for [[Dance from Noah]]
 
* Select the best audio for [[Dance from Noah]]
* Compare versions of [[The Dreams]] - one seems flatter than the others
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* Compare versions of [[The Dreams]] - the flat one is a manky radio recording. There is a better copy at [https://whitefiles.org/rwy/index.htm]
* Listen to the woman's hour 20080725 programme with Dick Mills and Elizabeth Parker.
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* Transcribe the description of [[I.E.E.100#Man on a Moon|Man on a Moon]]
  
 
=Misc=
 
=Misc=
* Get a digital copy of the [[Attic Tapes]] and the Ayres hoard.
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* Torrent a digital copy of the [[Attic Tapes]] and the Ayres hoard.
* Delia's music for [[Johnny's Jaunts]] published on cassette or from off-air recordings.
 
  
 
=Audio Processing=
 
=Audio Processing=
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* Identify and extract audio from [[Ways of Seeing]] episode 2
 
* Identify and extract audio from [[Ways of Seeing]] episode 2
 
* Add electronic noises from [[The Cracksman]] to its page
 
* Add electronic noises from [[The Cracksman]] to its page
* Make public torrents of thebox.bz/zxcv.fm's video files now that they've closed down
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* Compare our audio for [[Dance from Noah]] with [[EMS FLEXI 1]] from [http://www.thesynthi.de/index.php?/categories/19-Synthi-Albums#post-59 thesynthi.de]
* Compare our audio for [[Radio Solent]] and [[Dance from Noah]] with [[EMS FLEXI 1]] from [http://www.thesynthi.de/index.php?/categories/19-Synthi-Albums#post-59 thesynthi.de]
 
 
* Rip the makeups from [https://deliaderbyshireday.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/dd-day-2014-trailer-latest-news-about-the-delia-derbyshire-archive/ dd-day-2014-trailer]
 
* Rip the makeups from [https://deliaderbyshireday.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/dd-day-2014-trailer-latest-news-about-the-delia-derbyshire-archive/ dd-day-2014-trailer]
 
* Compare audio of [[Ways of Seeing]] from youtube with that from torrent
 
* Compare audio of [[Ways of Seeing]] from youtube with that from torrent
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=Spectrograms=
 
=Spectrograms=
 
* Re-do all pre-2016 spectrograms using the repaired sndfile-spectrogram:
 
* Re-do all pre-2016 spectrograms using the repaired sndfile-spectrogram:
** [[:File:Happy_Birthday_-_Spectrogram.jpg]]
 
** [[:File:Blue_Veils_and_Golden_Sands_-_Spectrogram.jpg]]
 
** [[:File:Door_To_Door_-_Spectrogram.jpg]]
 
** [[:File:Pot_Au_Feu_-_Spectrogram.jpg]]
 
** [[:File:Great_Zoos_of_the_World_-_Spectrogram.jpg]]
 
 
** [[:File:Doctor_Who_-_Spectrogram.jpg]]
 
** [[:File:Doctor_Who_-_Spectrogram.jpg]]
 
** [[:File:Oranges_and_Lemons_-_Spectrogram.jpg]]
 
** [[:File:Oranges_and_Lemons_-_Spectrogram.jpg]]
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** [[The Dreams]]
 
** [[The Dreams]]
 
* Split [[The After Life]] into tracks and do spectrograms
 
* Split [[The After Life]] into tracks and do spectrograms
* Do the spectrograms for [[Audio]] from 1971 on
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* Do the spectrograms for
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** [[The Afterlife]]
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** [[The Evenings of Certain Lives]] clips
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** [[I.E.E.100]] clips
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** [[O Fat White Woman]]
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** [[Shadow of the Pharoah]]
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** [[The Legend of Hell House]]
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** [[Pompeii]]
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** [[Synchrondipity Machine]]
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** [[Ways of Seeing]]
  
 
=System Administration=
 
=System Administration=
* Web server: See if the Score mediawiki extension works when using mediawiki 1.18 to typeset score fragments.
 
 
* Learn how to make automated edits using the Mediawiki API by modifying [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code their example client code]
 
* Learn how to make automated edits using the Mediawiki API by modifying [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code their example client code]
 
* Make a torrent of [[The Bagman]]
 
* Make a torrent of [[The Bagman]]
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=References=
 
=References=
 
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[[Category:WikiDelia]]

Latest revision as of 16:40, 19 November 2022

There's loads to do on the WikiDelia.

Writing the wikidelia

Research

Document recovery

  • Retrieve The Times article from 16th January 1968 reviewing Pot Pourri at the Queen Elizabeth Hall concert.
  • Find the article about the BBC Radiophonic Workshop published in the magazine "Tatlers" on 12th May 1965.
  • Find a copy of the Record Collector Magazine interview in 1997

At Manchester

  • Get a better scan of The Dark Ages glossy magazine article for the photo of Briscoe and Delia. Library catalogue number GB 133 DDA/1/5/19.

Papers to transcribe

Scores to typeset

The following pieces are only known from their scores, so typesetting one will resurrect an otherwise lost piece:

These need completing:

and the following pieces are good candidates for conventional scoring from their spectrograms:

Audio to recover

Radio programmes

  • The Cyprian Queen broadcast 2nd March 1964 at 8:30pm on the Home Service
  • The Death of a Jelly Baby/Gravel broadcast
    • 29th May 1964 at 8.45pm on the BBC Third Programme
    • 14th June 1964
  • The Pool broadcast
    • 5th March 1965 at 21:50 on BBC Network Three
    • 22nd March 1965
    • 8th January 1966
  • The Dark Ages broadcast
    • 1st May 1965 at 8.00pm
    • 17th May 1965
  • The Flame broadcast
    • 16th July 1965 on the BBC Third Programme
    • 1st August 1965.
  • An ABC in Sound broadcast 7th January 1966
  • A Bayeux Tapestry broadcast
    • 13 October 1966 at 7:50pm on the Third Programme
    • 1 November 1967 20.35 on BBC Radio 3
    • 2 November 1969 14.30 on BBC Radio 4 FM
  • The Coming of the Car, episode of BBC Radio for Schools series "The Modern World" broadcast
    • 9th November 1966
  • A Year I Remember: A Silence filled with Greek, broadcast
    • 17th January 1967 at 7:30pm on the BBC Third Programme
    • 10th February 1967
  • Home This Afternoon should have Delia's title music from 1967 on.
  • The Applicant radio play
    • 21st December 1967 at 8.50pm on BBC Radio 3
    • 26th April 1968
  • Anti Smoking Campaign for Radio Leeds, late 1968.
  • The Autocrats, in the NPR Earplay series, was broadcast on American radio station KRAB.FM
    • Apr 28, 1974 at 7:30pm
    • Oct 5, 1974 at 8:30pm
    • Apr 30, 1976 at 2:00pm
    • Mar 18, 1977 at 7:30pm

These interviews may be interesting:

  • The Afternoon Shift, 28th March 1997, BBC Radio 4, a programme about the demise of the BBCRW.
  • The BBC has Oram interview quotes in its recording of The World This Weekend: 10 Years of The Radiophonic Workshop (1972)[1] Also on TRW 6843. See if the episode has any mention of Delia or her work.

Where to search:

  • The Old Time Radio Researchers make a lot of old radio recordings available on the web, mostly American series from the 1940s.
  • RadioGOLDINdex lists mostly American radio shows that he used to have but does not provide content.
  • Radio Spirits reissues old American Radio programmes and bought many of the master tapes from RadioGOLDINdex.
  • There are many collectors of British radio recordings, but you have to contact them individually.
  • The British Library Drama and literature recordings for BBC Radio and RSC audio recordings
  • The British Library has a collection of BBC Radio recordings but "The BBC Sound Archive Catalogue can currently only be accessed in the British Library's Humanities - floor 2 reading room, where printed catalogues or microfiche (shelfmark HUS025.348209421) detailing pre-1992 holdings can be browsed."[2] although "The online catalogue details a significant proportion of the Library's radio holdings"[2]
  • University College London has some radio programmes, but you need to be a UCL student, member of staff or honorary member of staff.

BBC TV programmes

Where to search:

Album tracks

  • The shorter version of Firebird on vinyl (2:46 instead of the CD's 3:00)

In libraries/institutions

On the Radiophonic Workshop tapes

and Delia's music for over a hundred other programmes

On the Attic Tapes

See Attic Tapes:Wishlist

Listening

Misc

  • Torrent a digital copy of the Attic Tapes and the Ayres hoard.

Audio Processing

Spectrograms

System Administration

References