AETHERPHON, global theremin family

On 30 May 2006, at 17:51, Victoria Lundy wrote:
>
> I'm just glad to hear a reference to one of my heroes. Delia  
> Derbyshire did
> amazing things with very basic equipment and much hard and tedious  
> work. Is
> there any kind of biography about her anywhere?

Googling her name gives a pretty good set of links. Amazon turns up  
nothing, but gives positive results for Radiophonic Workshop -  
including The Tomorrow People at amazon.co.uk. (TTP was a kids  
science fiction show on ITV - one of their responses to Doctor Who.  
Wandering off topic, so was Sapphire and Steel, one of my all time  
favourites, but no Delia D involvement. :-( )

Everyone my age in the UK grew up hearing the radiophonic workshop -  
it was everywhere on the TV - schools educational programmes were  
almost exclusively Radiophonic Workshop, plus the two must-see kids  
sci-fi progs, but hardly anyone has heard of DD.

BBC4 did a documentary about the workshop, Alchemists of Sound which  
had leaked onto the internet, but it's gone now - apparently the BBC  
were not happy about the copyright infringement.

Gordon