Giles Cooper comedy originally recorded for the Home Service in August 1956
Created for the Home Service, this Giles Cooper comedy was shelved and eventually broadcast on the Third Programme a year later.
Continue Reading 25th August 1956 – The Disagreeable Oyster completed
“A story by Kafka from the collection “In the Penal Settlement” translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. Read by Kenneth Griffith with music composed by Franz Reizenstein.”
Continue Reading 27th October 1957 – The Metamorphosis broadcast (Third Programme)
“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”.
Continue Reading 24th February 1958 – A Winter Journey broadcast (Third Programme)
The BBC announces the opening of the Radiophonic Workshop with a press conference.
Continue Reading 1st April 1958 – The Radiophonic Workshop is officially opened
“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 will hear on Monday evening (Home) may prove to be one of yours.
Continue Reading 19th May 1958 – The Ocean broadcast (BBC Home Service)
“A radio play by Giles Cooper”. Bath-based psychotic break absurdity with integral Radiophonic effects by Desmond Briscoe. A classic Donald McWhinnie production
Continue Reading 3rd August 1958 – Under the Loofah Tree broadcast (Third Programme)
Pub-emptying, appointment to view, sci-fi television event of the era with bravura scary effects from Desmond Briscoe
Continue Reading 22nd December 1958 – Quatermass and the Pit broadcast (BBC tv)
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.
Continue Reading 2nd February 1959 – The Goon Show – The Scarlet Capsule broadcast
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.
Continue Reading 19th February 1959 – ‘Outside’ broadcast (BBC tv)
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.
Continue Reading 16th October 1960 – Children’s Hour: Phra The Phoenician broadcast (Home Service)
“The staff in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop at work, as the experimental broadcast Private Dreams and Public Nightmares is recorded.” (re-recorded)
Continue Reading 13th November 1962 – World Of Sound broadcast (BBC tv)