BBC Radiophonic Workshop

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The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was a sound effects unit of the BBC. Members included Dick Mills, Brian Hodgson, and Delia Derbyshire. They are perhaps best known for recording the Doctor Who theme arrangement, which was composed by Ron Grainer. Members of the Workshop also provided the Incidental Music for several Doctor Who stories.

Doctor Who Filmography (Incidental Music):

• The Underwater Menace (Composed by Dudley Simpson)
• The Macra Terror (Composed by Dudley Simpson)
• The Web of Fear
• Fury from the Deep (Composed by Dudley Simpson)
• The Wheel in Space
• The Dominators
• The Mind Robber
• The Krotons
• The Sea Devils
• Revenge of the Cybermen
• The Leisure Hive
• Meglos
• Full Circle
• State of Decay
• Warriors' Gate
• The Keeper of Traken
• Logopolis
• Castrovalva
• Four to Doomsday
• Kinda
• The Visitation
• Black Orchid
• Earthshock
• Time-Flight
• Arc of Infinity
• Snakedance
• Terminus
• Enlightenment
• The King's Demons
• The Five Doctors
• Warriors of the Deep
• The Awakening
• Resurrection of the Daleks
• Planet of Fire
• The Caves of Androzani
• The Twin Dilemma
• Attack of the Cybermen
• Vengeance on Varos
• The Mark of the Rani
• The Two Doctors
• Timelash
• Revelation of the Daleks
• Terror of the Vervoids

Members

The following members of the Workshop worked on Doctor Who, composing music and/or sound effects during the indicated dates.

• Delia Derbyshire (1963)
• Brian Hodgson (1963 - 1973)
• Malcolm Clarke (1972 - 1986)
• Dick Mills (1973 - 1989)
• Peter Howell (1975 - 1985)
• Elizabeth Parker (1978/1985)
• Paddy Kingsland (1980 - 1982 at the Workshop; 1983 - 1984 as a freelancer)
• Roger Limb (1980 - 1985)
• Jonathan Gibbs (1984 - 1985)