1958 – A Radiophonic Chronology

22nd December 1958 – Quatermass and the Pit broadcast (BBC tv)

Dec 22, 1958

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in 1950s, 1958, A Retrospective, BBC Radiophonic Workshop – 21, Desmond Briscoe, Dick Mills, Jimmy Burnett

Pub-emptying, appointment to view, sci-fi television event of the era with bravura scary effects from Desmond Briscoe

3rd August 1958 – Under the Loofah Tree broadcast (Third Programme)

Aug 3, 1958

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in 1958, Desmond Briscoe

“A radio play by Giles Cooper”. Bath-based psychotic break absurdity with integral Radiophonic effects by Desmond Briscoe. A classic Donald McWhinnie production

24th May 1958 – The Times – BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop

May 24, 1958

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in 1958, Print Article

A “workshop” for producing synthetic sounds, partly by electronic oscillators and partly by trickery with conventional sounds recorded on tape, has been set up by the B.B.C. at their Maida Vale studios. It is being used to provide an imaginative background to drama productions which cannot be obtained from ordinary music or from the stock-in-trade…

23rd May 1958 Birmingham Post – ‘Sound – with Mood’

May 23, 1958

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in 1958, Print Article

“New sound” – suggestive of emotion, sensation and mood – is being produced at Britain’s first radiophonic workshop in Maida Vale Set up by the BBC to supply an aid to productions, its plant and devices were joyously sounded off by technicians for the benefit of newspapermen to-day.”

22nd May 1958 – BBC Press Conference / press release

May 22, 1958

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in 1958

‘BBC Opens Britain’s First Radiophonic Workshop’

19th May 1958 – The Ocean broadcast (BBC Home Service)

May 19, 1958

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in 1950s, 1958, A Retrospective, Daphne Oram, Desmond Briscoe

“Leo McKern and Jack MacGowran in ‘ THE OCEAN’”. Adapted for radio from a novel by James Hanley. The radio script and production were by Donald McWhinnnie who wrote in the Radio Times “The attempt to re-interpret Hanley’s vision has been one of my most exciting radio experiences and I hope that the sound-complex you…