Category: Daphne Oram
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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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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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7th October 1957 – Private Dreams and Public Nightmares broadcast (Third Programme)
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“A radiophonic poem by Frederick Bradnum with Joan Sanderson, Andrew Sachs and Frederick Treves. Production by Donald McWhinnie who introduces the programme”