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Oooh cool, Jeremy Limb, who played Timothy Drake at the start of The Devil's Chord, is the son of Roger Limb, of the Radiophonic Workshop!

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BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Doctor Who: The Music (BBC Records, 1983).

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Roger Limb - Kitten's Lullaby

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Roger Limb - Kitten's Lullaby

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Protect & Survive

1970's UK public infommercials on nuclear war preparation.

List of episodes

Nuclear Explosions Explained (1:35) Effects of atomic weapons

The Warnings (2:53) Attack, fall-out and all-clear warnings

What To Do When the Warnings Sound (2:28) “Immediate action” drill

Stay at Home (1:40) Techniques for sheltering in place

Choosing a Fall-Out Room (2:06) Choosing a safe room

Refuges (3:54) Building an “inner refuge”

Materials To Use For Your Fall-out Room And Refuge (1:55) Radiation shielding materials

Make Your Fall-out Room and Refuge Now (4:42) Preparing for an attack

What To Put In Your Fall-out Room (3:03) Essential supplies

Action After Warnings (4:13) Detailed “immediate action” drill

Water and Food (2:41) Provisions for 14 days

Sanitation (1:33) Makeshift toilet arrangements

Fire Precautions (2:02) Expedient firefighting techniques

The Importance Of Your Radio (1:20) Portable radio as a vital aid

Life Under Fall-Out Conditions (2:51) Survival during an attack

What To Do After An Attack (2:29) Post-attack actions

Sanitation Care (2:40) Essential hygiene

Water Consumption (1:28) Safeguarding and rationing water

Food Consumption (1:40) Rationing food

Casualties (1:27) Expedient casualty care and mortuary actions

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Soundtrack review to Roger Limb's score to DR WHO: THE CAVES OF ANDROZANI.

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Radiophonic Reunion: The BBC Radiophonic Workshop Concert at the Roundhouse

In 2009, a remarkable thing happened: a BBC Radiophonic Workshop concert at the Roundhouse in London. Dick Mills, Roger Limb, Paddy Kingsland, Peter Howell, and Mark Ayres gathered together with a brass section and a live drummer to perform some of the Workshop’s greatest hits, including music from Doctor Who and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. 

There has not been a full video or audio release of this event, but bootlegged pieces of it are available on YouTube and Vimeo (just search for “radiophonic workshop roundhouse” and kiss your afternoon goodbye). The piece above is an odds-and-ends selection of bits from the show, frustratingly incomplete, but fun to watch all the same—I quite like the bit with Dick Mills at the beginning playing a VCS3. At 1:15, note the crowd reactions to Daphne Oram’s name—and in particular to the reference to the BBC’s closure of the Workshop.

The whole concert—what we can see of it, anyway, in these bits and pieces—is really quite moving. Because it really is genuinely wonderful to see these jobbing musicians and composers, who for so long laboured in near obscurity, getting the adulation they’ve earned. And of course you cannot help but think of those who have gone and never quite received that recognition in their lifetimes, and be a little sad.