Catalogue of published recordings by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
BBC Radiophonic Workshop discographyStudio albums 6 Compilation albums 10 Singles 12 Soundtrack albums 19 Sound effect albums 6 Stock music library albums 6 Box Sets 3
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, 6-CD
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
CD box set released as part of Record Store Day 20 April 2024.[31]
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"[32]
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.[33]
2019
"Doctor Who" / "Strange Lines And Distances"
Released with issue 59 of the Electronic Sound magazine.
See also
References
^ The Seasons (booklet). Trunk Records. 2012. JBH043CD.
^ "Radiophonic Workshop". Bowers & Wilkins / Society of Sound. Retrieved 30 January 2015 .
^ Bleep. "The Radiophonic Workshop - Burials In Several Earths - Room 13". bleep.com . Retrieved 17 April 2017 .
^ Bleep. "The Radiophonic Workshop - Everything You Can Imagine Is Real - Room 13". Bleep . Retrieved 22 July 2017 .
^ "Elizabeth Parker, BBC Radiophonic Workshop - The Living Planet (Music from the BBC TV Series)". greedbag.com . Retrieved 30 July 2016 .
^ "Paddy Kingsland - Record Store Day". Record Store Day . Archived from the original on 10 March 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2018 .
^ "Radiophonic Workshop". Facebook . Retrieved 9 March 2018 .
^ "Possum (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), by The Radiophonic Workshop". The Radiophonic Workshop . Retrieved 26 September 2018 .
^ "The Radiophonic Workshop - Possum (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). CD. Bleep". bleep.com . 25 October 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018 .
^ "Roger Limb and The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - The Box Of Delights (Original Television Soundtrack)". Silva Screen Music .
^ "Desmond Briscoe, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Record Store Day". Record Store Day UK .
^ "Stealing Sheep and the Radiophonic Workshop – la Planète Sauvage". 15 October 2021.
^ "New Classic Who Release:The Krotons". Doctor Who Music. Retrieved 28 March 2013 .
^ "DOCTOR WHO - THE INVASION -- SCREEN ARCHIVES ENTERTAINMENT". www.screenarchives.com . Retrieved 3 August 2018 .
^ 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 .
^ "Gallifrey Guardian: Revisiting Vinyl". Doctor Who Magazine . No. 547. Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Panini UK Ltd. February 2020. p. 4.
^ "SILCD1585 Doctor Who – Revenge Of The Cybermen". www.silvascreen.com .
^ "Radiophonic Workshop Powers Up On April 22nd". Silva Screen Records. 16 March 2016.
^ "The Soundhouse". 7 October 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2016 – via Amazon.
^ "Various Artists - BBC Radiophonic Workshop - The Soundhouse". greedbag.com . Retrieved 25 September 2016 .
^ "Issue 28 & CD Bundle - Sold Out - Electronic Sound". electronicsound.co.uk . Retrieved 22 July 2017 .
^ Poisoned Planet (booklet). Cavendish Music. 1993. CAV CD 55.
^ Undersea World (booklet). Cavendish Music. 1993. CAV CD 56.
^ Africa (booklet). Cavendish Music. 1993. CAV CD 57.
^ Time and Space (booklet). Cavendish Music. 1993. CAV CD 58.
^ Ethnic Impressions (booklet). Cavendish Music. 1993. CAV CD 59.
^ "BBC Radiophonic Workshop, The - Record Store Day". recordstoreday.co.uk . Archived from the original on 3 September 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020 .
^ "Silva Screen Records". www.silvascreen.com .
^ "Silva Screen Records". www.silvascreen.com .
^ Screen, Silva. "Barry Bermange, Delia Derbyshire, BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Inventions for Radio. Silva Screen" – via silvascreen.ochre.store.
^ "Inventions for Radio".
^ "Proximity Edit, by The Radiophonic Workshop x Rupert Clervaux". The Radiophonic Workshop . Retrieved 9 March 2018 .
^ "Issue 43 & Vinyl Bundle - Pre-Order - Electronic Sound". electronicsound.co.uk . Retrieved 4 July 2018 .
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