The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was based in Delaware Road in London’s Maida Vale, opened by Desmond Briscoe on April Fools Day 1958. For many years the BBC had a department for sound effects, where ...

The BBC's Radiophonic Workshop, a pioneering force in sound effects, would have been 50 this month. Ten years after it was disbanded, what remains of its former glory? Deep in the bowels of BBC Maida ...

Delia Derbyshire, creator of the sound of the Doctor Who theme, at work at the Radiophonic Workshop, London. In 1958, the BBC set up a small unit, the Radiophonic Workshop, to create atmospheric music ...