BBC Radiophonic Workshop discography

Catalogue of published recordings by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

BBC Radiophonic Workshop discography

Studio 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

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Year | Album details | Notes

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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

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Year | Album details | Notes

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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

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Year | Album details | Notes

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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

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Year | Album details | Notes

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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

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Year | Album details | Notes

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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

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Year | Album details | Notes

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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

* Released 15 March 2012
* Label: Universal Publishing Production Music (BBCPM005)
* Format: CD

| Music by Paddy Kingsland

## Box sets

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Year | Album details | Notes

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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:

* BBC Radiophonic Music (1968)
* Fourth Dimension (1973)
* The Radiophonic Workshop (1975)
* Through A Glass Darkly (1978)
* The Body in Question single (1981)
* The Changes (2018)
* The Stone Tape (2019)

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

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Year | Title | Notes

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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

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* Inventions for Radio (unreleased)

## References

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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. ^ "Silva Screen Records". www.silvascreen.com.
30. ^ Screen, Silva. "Barry Bermange, Delia Derbyshire, BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Inventions for Radio. Silva Screen" - via silvascreen.ochre.store.
31. ^ "Inventions for Radio".
32. ^ "Proximity Edit, by The Radiophonic Workshop x Rupert Clervaux". The Radiophonic Workshop. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
33. ^ "Issue 43 & Vinyl Bundle - Pre-Order - Electronic Sound". electronicsound.co.uk. Retrieved 4 July 2018.

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BBC Radiophonic Workshop

* Desmond Briscoe
* Daphne Oram
* Dick Mills
* Maddalena Fagandini
* Brian Hodgson
* Delia Derbyshire
* John Baker
* David Cain
* Malcolm Clarke
* Paddy Kingsland
* Richard Yeoman-Clark
* Roger Limb
* Glynis Jones
* Peter Howell
* Elizabeth Parker
* Jonathan Gibbs
* Mark Ayres
* Richard Attree

Discography|

* "Time Beat"
* BBC Radiophonic Music
* Fourth Dimension
* The Radiophonic Workshop
* Out of This World
* Through A Glass Darkly
* BBC Sound Effects No. 19: Doctor Who Sound Effects
* BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 21
* BBC Sound Effects No. 26: Sci-Fi Sound Effects
* Doctor Who: The Music
* The Soundhouse
* The Living Planet: Music from the BBC TV Series
* Doctor Who: The Music II
* Doctor Who: 30 Years at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
* Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
* Volume 1: The Early Years 1963–1969
* Volume 2: New Beginnings 1970–1980
* Volume 3: The Leisure Hive
* Volume 4: Meglos & Full Circle
* Music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
* The John Baker Tapes – Volume 1: BBC Radiophonics
* BBC Radiophonic Workshop – A Retrospective
* Radiophonic Workshop
* The Vendetta Tapes
* Burials in Several Earths
* Inventions for Radio

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