Category: BBC Radiophonic Workshop – 21
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5th January 1963 – The Chem Lab Mystery broadcast (BBC tv)
In the same Saturday teatime slot soon to be filled by another children’s sci-if serial with Radiophonic music, The Chem Lab Mystery was a school-based serial with alchemy as the central riddle. Maddalena Fagandini created the theme.
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6th March 1962 – ‘Ideal Home Exhibition’ event (Olympia, London)
Music for travellators, or the BBC’s People Make Programmes Exhibit, by Maddelana Fagandini.
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16th October 1960 – Children’s Hour: Phra The Phoenician broadcast (Home Service)
Desmond Briscoe with a fanfare for “A play in six episodes by Michael Kelly based on the book by Edwin Lester Arnold”. The book’s full title is The Wonderful Adventures of Phra The Phoenician from 1883.
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3rd October 1960 – Music for Party Political Conferences broadcast (BBC tv)
Also known as Time Beat, Maddalena Fagandini’s rhythm track had slightly less ‘fab’, and rather more obscure, origins.
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15th August 1960 – The Artist Speaks: Victor Pasmore broadcast (BBC tv)
‘The most significant factor about this approach to painting and sculpture, completely free from representation, is that it provides a completely new and more dynamic relationship between the Work of art, the artist and the spectator… if it were large enough he could get into it’. (BBC Television film) “Abstract sound by: The BBC Radiophonic…
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13th May 1960 – The Grandeur That Was Rome broadcast (BBC tv)
AKA The Splendour… Phil Young provides the theme music
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1960 – Interval Signal
Maddalena’s other rhythm. “One of the many interval signals that filled the gaps between TV programmes” – Brian Hodgson, Radiophonic 21.
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6th April 1959 – Science and Industry logged into the BBC Recorded Programmes Permanent Library
Science and Industry was the first electronic signature tune for a BBC radio programme, making it a landmark worthy of special attention. I say tune but this is quite a challenging sequence of musical scenes from Phil Young. Although there’s no information on when it was first used in a broadcast it was entered into…
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19th February 1959 – ‘Outside’ broadcast (BBC tv)
Following almost a year after their first television job (see Amphitryon 38, March 1958) Desmond is now teamed up with Maddalena Fagandini (with assistance form Dick Mills) for Outside, which may also be their first documentary.