Category: 1950s
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23rd May 1958 Birmingham Post – ‘Sound – with Mood’
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“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.”
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22nd May 1958 – BBC Press Conference / press release
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in 1958‘BBC Opens Britain’s First Radiophonic Workshop’
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19th May 1958 – The Ocean broadcast (BBC Home Service)
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“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…
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13th May 1958 – Press Photographers Visit
Desmond Briscoe, Daphne Oram, Donald McWhinnie, Dickie Bird pose for photos busy in the Workshop
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1st April 1958 – The Radiophonic Workshop is officially opened
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The BBC announces the opening of the Radiophonic Workshop with a press conference.
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2nd March 1958 – Television World Theatre presents: Amphitryon 38* broadcast (BBC tv)
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And before the Radiophonic Workshop has even opened its doors it gains its first television credit. Daphne Oram provides effects for a British production of a French take on a Roman play.
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24th February 1958 – A Winter Journey broadcast (Third Programme)
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“A play in word and sound by James Hanley. Produced by John Gibson (BBC Recording). The first of two Radiophonic plays from the writer James Hanley this year. This one written by Hanley himself for BBC Wales”.
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2nd February 1958 – Birmingham Post previews A Winter Journey
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“This is the first application the BBC has made of this technique to a dramatic production not specially written for the purpose. Radiophonic sound is the imaginative use of sound specially created to convey emotional effects in a way neither actors nor conventional sounds or music can achieve.”