Category: Desmond Briscoe
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13th November 1962 – World Of Sound broadcast (BBC tv)
“The staff in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop at work, as the experimental broadcast Private Dreams and Public Nightmares is recorded.” (re-recorded)
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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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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.
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2nd February 1959 – The Goon Show – The Scarlet Capsule broadcast
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Spike Milligan was one of the millions glued to Quatermass and the Pit and was evidently taking notes. The whole of The Scarlet Capsule is a spoof and a very good and affectionate one. With typical attention to the sound and music Desmond Briscoe’s effects are used straight.
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22nd December 1958 – Quatermass and the Pit broadcast (BBC tv)
Pub-emptying, appointment to view, sci-fi television event of the era with bravura scary effects from Desmond Briscoe
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3rd August 1958 – Under the Loofah Tree broadcast (Third Programme)
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“A radio play by Giles Cooper”. Bath-based psychotic break absurdity with integral Radiophonic effects by Desmond Briscoe. A classic Donald McWhinnie production
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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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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”.