Travelling in Winter

Delia's created music for a Radio 4 radio play Travelling in Winter produced by John Tydeman first broadcast on 5 July 1971 and described as “Monday Play. Set in a feudal village in England in the Middle Ages. By Jean Morris. Music selected and composed by David Kane. The radiophonic score was by Delia Derbyshire.”

1 minute 18 seconds of it was renamed "Dreaming" for issue as track 17 of the BBC record of sound effects "Out Of This World".

Makeup

• Dreaming for the closing credits

Extracts

• Intro to titles voice over

• The Cold

• "Then things change up there"

• "I hear something"

• "I'm so cold"

• The Hungry Gap

• "There is time in plenty for long thought" chilling effect

• Chilling background with final swell

• "A woman with long fair hair and a pale face" bg with final swell

• "The wit the Devil gives us. How could we survive without it?" bg and swell

• "The air's stinging cold", swell and wind

• "I think I am called" subacqua plings

• "The Goddess' own face"

• "How beautiful it is"

• Church bells (compare O Fat White Woman - Consequences)

• "I had not understood what a son's death is"

• "It's an early Spring", Dreaming with birdsong

• Music for closing credits, including Dreaming

Availability

• Broadcast on the 5th July 1971.
• In the BBC Sound Archive on tape TRW 7417: "Travelling in Winter".
• In Sutton Elms' collection of historic radio recordings.
• See Dreaming.