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Peter Howell ‘Through A Glass Darkly’

In 1977, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s Peter Howell recorded ‘Through A Glass Darkly’, a stunning album of synth-heavy prog rock. The jewel in the crown? ‘A Lyrical Adventure’, the 19-minute epic sprawling across the entirety of Side One
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Bas Jan: Swamp Things

The new album by London synthpop quartet Bas Jan deftly combines the everyday and the esoteric. Examples? Fonts on British road signs and the tragic history of Irish witchcraft... 
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Elizabeth Parker: Singing In The Wires

Elizabeth Parker was a BBC Radiophonic Workshop mainstay and one of Britain’s most in-demand composers of TV and film soundtracks. A new compilation, ‘Future Perfect’, gathers together previously unheard pieces from her own private archive. Expect ghostly nuns and clunky scaffolding
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Howard Jones

It’s 40 years since Howard Jones first crashed into the Top 10 with ‘New Song’. To mark the occasion, Cherry Red have issued a superb career retrospective, ‘Celebrate It Together’. And it all started with the coolest teacher in High Wycombe
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Emma Anderson: Out Of Her Shell

It’s 35 years since Emma Anderson formed shoegaze behemoths Lush, but her new album ‘Pearlies’ is her first solo record proper.  As both a paean to independence and a work of darkly beautiful psychedelic pop, it’s a triumph. What’s on her mind these days? 
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The BBC Radiophonic Workshop: Adventures In Time And Space

The 60th anniversary of ‘Doctor Who’ is a diamond opportunity to celebrate the work of an equally eccentric British institution — one with inextricable links to the cosmos’ favourite Time Lord. In a new interview, Brian Hodgson, Dick Mills, Roger Limb, Peter Howell, Paddy Kingsland and Mark Ayres take a journey back through the strange and compelling history of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
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‘Inventions For Radio’: The Mother Of Inventions

In the mid-1960s, Delia Derbyshire collaborated with playwright Barry Bermange on ‘Inventions For Radio’, a series of groundbreaking sound collages. Dr David Butler, curator of the Delia Derbyshire Archive, looks ahead to a forthcoming boxset of these pivotal radiophonic recordings
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Belbury Poly: The Fairy Hikers

For his latest release as Belbury Poly, Jim Jupp has assembled a Ghost Box supergroup with a mid-Atlantic feel. Gathered together for the first time, they discuss ‘The Twilight Zone’, flat-roofed pubs and the fairy folklore that inspired the new record