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BBC Radiophonic Workshop discography
Studio albums6
Soundtrack albums19
Compilation albums10
Singles12
Sound effect albums6
Stock music library albums6
Box Sets3

This is the discography of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a British electronic music group. It consists of releases of music and sound effects.

Studio albums

Year Album details Notes
1969 The Seasons
  • Released 1969
  • Label: BBC Radio Enterprises (RESR 7)
  • Formats: LP, CD[1]
 Music by David Cain
1973 Fourth Dimension
  • Released 1973
  • Label: BBC Records (RED 93 S)
  • Formats: LP
 Music by Paddy Kingsland
1978 Through A Glass Darkly
  • Released 1978
  • Label: BBC Records (REC 307)
  • Formats: LP
 Music by Peter Howell
2014 Radiophonic Workshop[2]
  • Released December 2014
  • Label: Bowers & Wilkins (SOS79)
  • Formats: Subscriber-only download
2017 Burials In Several Earths[3]
  • Released 19 May 2017
  • Label: Room 13 (RWSCD001 [CD]; RWSLP001 [4x10" LP]; RWSDL001 [download])
  • Formats: 2xCD, 4x10" LP, WAV/FLAC, mp3
2017 Everything You Can Imagine Is Real[4]
  • Released 30 June 2017
  • Label: Room 13 (RWSDL002)
  • Formats: cassette, WAV/FLAC, mp3

Soundtrack albums

Year Album details Notes
1984 The Living Planet
  • Released 1984
  • Label: BBC Records (REB 496)
  • Formats: LP, CD[5]
 Music by Elizabeth Parker
2015 The Vendetta Tapes
  • Released 25 September 2015
  • Label: Buried Treasure Records (BUTR8)
  • Formats: CD, LP
 Music by John Baker
2018 The Changes
  • Released 21 April 2018[6]
  • Label: Silva Screen (SILLP1540)
  • Formats: 2-LP (limited), download[7]
 Music by Paddy Kingsland
2018 Possum
  • Released 26 October 2018[8][9]
  • Label: Room 13 (RWSCD003 [CD]; RWSDL003 [download])
  • Formats: CD, WAV/FLAC, mp3
2018 The Box of Delights[10]
  • Released December 2018
  • Label: Silva Screen (SILCD1547)
  • Formats: CD
 Music by Roger Limb
2019 The Stone Tape[11]
  • Released 13 April 2019
  • Label: Silva Screen (SILLP1548)
  • Formats: 10" green vinyl (limited)
 Music by Desmond Briscoe
2021 La Planète Sauvage[12]
(with Stealing Sheep)
  • Released: 23 November 2021 (limited colored vinyl), 21 January 2022
  • Label: Fire Records (FIRE653)
  • Formats: 2LP, CD
 Re-imaged score for the 1973 animated film Fantastic Planet

Doctor Who soundtrack albums

Year Album details Notes
1978 BBC Sound Effects No. 19 - Doctor Who Sound Effects
  • Released 1978
  • Label: BBC Records (REC 316)
  • Formats: LP, cassette (CS), CD
1983 Doctor Who - The Music
  • Released 1983
  • Label: BBC Records (REH 462)
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
 Reissued on CD in 1992 as Earthshock - Classic Music From The BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 1.
1985 Doctor Who - The Music II
  • Released 1985
  • Label: BBC Records (REH 552)
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD
 Reissued on CD in 1992 as The Five Doctors - Classic Music From The BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 2.
1993 Doctor Who: 30 Years at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
  • Released 5 July 1993
  • Label: BBC Records (BBCCD 871)
  • Formats: CD
2000 Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 1: The Early Years 1963–1969
  • Released 2000
  • Label: BBC Music (WMSF 6023-2)
  • Formats: CD
Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 2: New Beginnings 1970–1980
  • Released 2000
  • Label: BBC Music (WMSF 6024-2)
  • Formats: CD
2002 Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 3: The Leisure Hive
  • Released 2002
  • Label: BBC Music (WMSF 6052-2)
  • Formats: CD
 Music and effects by Peter Howell and Dick Mills
Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 4: Meglos & Full Circle
  • Released 2002
  • Label: BBC Music (WMSF 6053-2)
  • Formats: CD
 Music by Paddy Kingsland and Peter Howell
2013 Doctor Who – The Caves of Androzani
  • Released 25 March 2013
  • Label: Silva Screen (SILCD1370)
  • Formats: CD, 2xLP, Download
 Music by Roger Limb
Doctor Who – The Krotons [13]
  • Released 13 May 2013
  • Label: Silva Screen (SILCD1371)
  • Formats: CD, 10" LP, Download
 Special sounds by Brian Hodgson
2018 Doctor Who – The Five Doctors[14]
  • Released 14 September 2018
  • Label: Silva Screen (SILCD1553)
  • Formats: CD, 2-LP[15]
 Music by Peter Howell with special sounds by Dick Mills
2020 Doctor Who – The Visitation[16]
  • Released 1 May 2020
  • Label: Silva Screen (SILCD1570)
  • Formats: CD, Vinyl
 Music by Paddy Kingsland
2023 Doctor Who – Revenge of the Cybermen[17]
  • Released 24 November 2023 (SILCD1585)
  • Label: Silva Screen
  • Formats: CD, Vinyl
 Music by Peter Howell augmenting Carey Blyton's original score

Sound effects albums

Year Album details Notes
1976 Out of This World
  • Released 1976
  • Label: BBC Records (REC 225)
  • Formats: LP, CD
 Reissued on CD in 1991 as Essential Science Fiction Sound Effects Vol. 2.
1977 Sound Effects No. 13 – Death & Horror
  • Released 1976
  • Label: BBC Records (REC 269)
  • Formats: LP
 Produced by Mike Harding
1978 Sound Effects No. 21 – More Death & Horror
  • Released 1976
  • Label: BBC Records (REC 340)
  • Formats: LP
 Produced by Mike Harding
1981 BBC Sound Effects No. 26 - Sci-Fi Sound Effects
  • Released 1981
  • Label: BBC Records (REC 420)
  • Formats: LP, CD
 Reissued on CD in 1991 as Essential Science Fiction Sound Effects Vol. 1, reissued on CD under the original title in 2013.
1982 Even More Death & Horror – Sound Effects No. 27
  • Released 1982
  • Label: BBC Records (REC 452)
  • Formats: LP
 Produced by Mike Harding
1984 Hi-Tech FX - Sound Effects No.29
  • Released 1984
  • Label: BBC Records (REC 531)
  • Formats: LP, CD
 Released on CD in 1991 as Essential Hi Tech Sound Effects with the 1991 Tomorrow's World 3-D stereo demonstration

Compilation albums

Year Album details Notes
1968 BBC Radiophonic Music
  • Released 1968
  • Label: BBC Radio Enterprises (REC 25M)
  • Formats: LP, CD
1975 The Radiophonic Workshop
  • Released 1975
  • Label: BBC Records (REC 196)
  • Formats: LP, CD
1979 BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 21
  • Released 1979
  • Label: BBC Records (REC 354)
  • Formats: LP, CD[18]
1983 The Soundhouse
  • Released 1983
  • Label: BBC Records (REC 467)
  • Formats: LP, CS, CD[19][20]
1990 Essential Death & Horror Sound Effects Vol. 1
  • Released 1990
  • Label: BBC Enterprises (BBC CD 822)
  • Format: CD
 Compilation of the tracks produced by Mike Harding from the sides A of all three Death and Horror albums
Essential Death & Horror Sound Effects Vol. 2
  • Released 1990
  • Label: BBC Enterprises (BBC CD 823)
  • Format: CD
 Compilation of the tracks produced by Mike Harding from the sides B of all three Death and Horror albums
2003 Music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
  • Released 8 November 2003
  • Label: Rephlex (CAT 147 LP)
  • Formats: 4x10" LP
 Collects and re-orders BBC Radiophonic Music (1968) and The Radiophonic Worlshop (1975)
2008 The John Baker Tapes – Volume 1: BBC Radiophonics
  • Released July 2008
  • Label: Trunk Records (JBH028CD)
  • Formats:CD, LP
 Music by John Baker
BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective
  • Released November 2008
  • Label: The Grey Area (phonic 3 cd)
  • Formats: CD
2017 Radiophonica
  • Released 10 April 2017
  • Label: Electronic Sound (001)
  • Format: CD
 CD included in a limited bundle with issue 28 of the Electronic Sound magazine.[21]

Stock music library albums

Year Album details Notes
1994 Poisoned Planet[22]
  • Released 1994
  • Label: Cavendish Music (CAVCD 55)
  • Formats: CD
 Music by Elizabeth Parker, Peter Howell, Roger Limb, Malcolm Clarke and Richard Attree
Undersea World[23]
  • Released 1994
  • Label: Cavendish Music (CAVCD 56)
  • Format: CD
 Music by Elizabeth Parker, Peter Howell, Roger Limb, Malcolm Clarke and Richard Attree
Africa[24]
  • Released 1994
  • Label: Cavendish Music (CAVCD 57)
  • Format: CD
 Music by Peter Howell, Roger Limb, Malcolm Clarke and Richard Attree
Time And Space[25]
  • Released 1994
  • Label: Cavendish Music (CAVCD 58)
  • Format: CD
 Music by Elizabeth Parker, Peter Howell, Roger Limb, and Malcolm Clarke
Ethnic Impressions[26]
  • Released 1994
  • Label: Cavendish Music (CAVCD 59)
  • Format: CD
 Music by Elizabeth Parker, Peter Howell, Roger Limb, Malcolm Clarke and Richard Attree
2012 Retro Electro Music by Paddy Kingsland

Box sets

Year Album details Notes
1993 Radiophonic Workshop
  • Released 1993
  • Label: Cavendish Music
  • Format: 5-CD
 Box set of five stock music albums:
  • Poisoned Planet
  • Undersea World
  • Africa
  • Time And Space
  • Ethnic Impressions
2020 Four Albums 1968 - 1978[27][28]
  • Released 29 August 2020
  • Label: Silva Screen (SILCD1599)
  • Format: 6-CD
 Box set released for Record Store Day 2020 including:
2023 Inventions for Radio[29][30]
  • Released 8 December 2023
  • Label: Silva Screen (SILLP1598)
  • Format: 6-LP
 Box set of four radio broadcasts by Barry Bermange and Delia Derbyshire:
  • "The Dreams"
  • "Amor Dei'
  • "The After-Life"
  • "The Evenings of Certain Lives"

with related and bonus material

Singles

Year Title Notes
1962 "Time Beat" / "Waltz in Orbit" Ray Cathode (a pseudonym used by Maddalena Fagandini and George Martin)
1964 "Doctor Who" / "This Can't Be Love" Original Arrangement by Delia Derbyshire / Brenda & Johnny
1973 "Doctor Who" / "Reg" New Arrangement by Delia Derbyshire / Paddy Kingsland
1973 "Moonbase 3" / "The World Of Dr Who" Dick Mills
1976 Music From "The Changes" Paddy Kingsland
1978 "The Astronauts" / "Magenta Court" Peter Howell
1980 "Doctor Who" / "The Astronauts" Peter Howell
1981 The Body in Question Three tracks of music from the series by Peter Howell
1982 "K-9 & Company" / "Doctor Who" Ian Levine and Fiachra Trench / Peter Howell
2017 "Proximity Edit"[31] A single edit taken from Everything You Can Image Is Real reworked and reassembled by Rupert Clervaux
2018 "Strange Beacons" / "Mind the Gap" Released with issue 43 of the Electronic Sound magazine.[32]
2019 "Doctor Who" / "Strange Lines And Distances" Released with issue 59 of the Electronic Sound magazine.

See also

References

  1. ^ The Seasons (booklet). Trunk Records. 2012. JBH043CD.
  2. ^ "Radiophonic Workshop". Bowers & Wilkins / Society of Sound. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  3. ^ Bleep. "The Radiophonic Workshop - Burials In Several Earths - Room 13". bleep.com. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  4. ^ Bleep. "The Radiophonic Workshop - Everything You Can Imagine Is Real - Room 13". Bleep. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  5. ^ "Elizabeth Parker, BBC Radiophonic Workshop - The Living Planet (Music from the BBC TV Series)". greedbag.com. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  6. ^ "Paddy Kingsland - Record Store Day". Record Store Day. Archived from the original on 10 March 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  7. ^ "Radiophonic Workshop". Facebook. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  8. ^ "Possum (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), by The Radiophonic Workshop". The Radiophonic Workshop. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  9. ^ "The Radiophonic Workshop - Possum (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). CD. Bleep". bleep.com. 25 October 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  10. ^ "Roger Limb and The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - The Box Of Delights (Original Television Soundtrack)". Silva Screen Music.
  11. ^ "Desmond Briscoe, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Record Store Day". Record Store Day UK.
  12. ^ "Stealing Sheep and the Radiophonic Workshop – la Planète Sauvage". 15 October 2021.
  13. ^ "New Classic Who Release:The Krotons". Doctor Who Music. Retrieved 28 March 2013.
  14. ^ "DOCTOR WHO - THE INVASION -- SCREEN ARCHIVES ENTERTAINMENT". www.screenarchives.com. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  15. ^ Ayres, Mark (22 February 2018). "Re: Silva Screen releases [Part Two]". The Doctor Who Forum. Archived from the original on 23 February 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  16. ^ "Gallifrey Guardian: Revisiting Vinyl". Doctor Who Magazine. No. 547. Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Panini UK Ltd. February 2020. p. 4.
  17. ^ "SILCD1585 Doctor Who – Revenge Of The Cybermen". www.silvascreen.com.
  18. ^ "Radiophonic Workshop Powers Up On April 22nd". Silva Screen Records. 16 March 2016.
  19. ^ "The Soundhouse". 7 October 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2016 – via Amazon.
  20. ^ "Various Artists - BBC Radiophonic Workshop - The Soundhouse". greedbag.com. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  21. ^ "Issue 28 & CD Bundle - Sold Out - Electronic Sound". electronicsound.co.uk. Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  22. ^ Poisoned Planet (booklet). Cavendish Music. 1993. CAV CD 55.
  23. ^ Undersea World (booklet). Cavendish Music. 1993. CAV CD 56.
  24. ^ Africa (booklet). Cavendish Music. 1993. CAV CD 57.
  25. ^ Time and Space (booklet). Cavendish Music. 1993. CAV CD 58.
  26. ^ Ethnic Impressions (booklet). Cavendish Music. 1993. CAV CD 59.
  27. ^ "BBC Radiophonic Workshop, The - Record Store Day". recordstoreday.co.uk. Archived from the original on 3 September 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  28. ^ "Silva Screen Records". www.silvascreen.com.
  29. ^ https://www.silvascreen.com/sillp1598-inventions-for-radio/
  30. ^ https://silvascreen.ochre.store/release/425438-barry-bermange-delia-derbyshire-bbc-radiophonic-workshop-inventions-for-radio
  31. ^ "Proximity Edit, by The Radiophonic Workshop x Rupert Clervaux". The Radiophonic Workshop. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
  32. ^ "Issue 43 & Vinyl Bundle - Pre-Order - Electronic Sound". electronicsound.co.uk. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
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