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| I just wanted to share this fantastic Pink Floyd-esque (with a hint of Ozric Tentacles in places) reworking of the Doctor Who theme tune from Traffic Experiment as it doesn’t seem to have been getting the love it so obviously deserves. You can also download this track for free as an MP3 or FLAC at the Traffic Experiment website. I hope you enjoyed this interval, normal service will be resumed shortly.       
Most people will have been exposed to Delia Derbyshire’s work even if they aren’t aware of her name as she created the original 1963 arrangement of the Doctor Who theme tune. Her interpretation of the original score by composer Ron Grainer left him so stunned that on hearing the finished version he asked “Did I really write this?” to which Delia replied “most of it”. Grainer was so impressed with the result that he even tried to get her credited as co-composer but BBC bureaucracy prevented it. The documentary explains how creating such other worldly sounds in those days was a laborious process involving recording individual notes on magnetic tape which were then spliced together to make up the final tune. The show also includes various interviews and recordings with Delia and other examples of her music that demonstrate how far ahead of her time she was. In particular the 1968 White Noise album “An Electric Storm” made with David Vorhaus and fellow Radiophonic Workshop member Brian Hodgson is one of my favourites and is now considered an important and influential album in the development of electronic music. Sadly Delia died in 2001 at the age of 64 as a result of complications from breast cancer treatment. After her death her private collection of the material she recorded was bequeathed to Mark Ayres, archivist for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop who has worked with Manchester University to create a digitised archive of her work. If you missed the documentary you can hear it on iPlayer here or it is repeated on Monday at 3pm on Radio 4. Here is a good site with detailed instructions for building your own TARDIS. A here is a guy who has built his own TARDIS, console, console room, Daleks and K9, with loads of pics of them in progress Guess what I got of UKNova last night! Only the first episode of the new Dr Who!! It’s not even due to be broadcast till the end of the month. Wasn’t on there for long though, bit likely to draw the wrong sort of attention methinks Post viewing report coming later! I’ve had some good bits of televisual geekery off UKN last week as well, two of which were the “Beeb VT Christmas tapes” from 78 & 79 (made by the guys in “VT” and not for public consumption), lots of comic Dr Who clips in there amongst other stuff! Update:
There was mention in todays Sunday Times of the possibility of a new Dr Who movie: Dyke calls up Daleks to take on Hollywood – let’s hope it’s better than the last one! It looks like the pilot of the Doctor Who audio adventure, Death Comes to Time, was a success. The BBC has commissioned further episodes which will be posted weekly starting sometime in 2002. Looks like it will still only be available as real audio though, can’t we have mp3 too please? There is now a short trailer for the forthcoming Dr Who audio drama on the BBC site. Doctor Who returns to the BBC on 13 July as a special one-off audio drama, Death Comes To Time. It will be broadcast on the Beebs official Doctor Who web site and Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred continue their roles as last played on TV in 1989. Listeners will also be able to vote on whether they want The Doctor to return. [more] There was mention in todays Sunday Times of the possibility of a new Dr Who movie: Dyke calls up Daleks to take on Hollywood – let’s hope it’s better than the last one! | 
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