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BBC Radiophonic Workshop

experimental audio recording studio
Organization Organizational Unit Q1778799

Facts

6 properties

Identity

Instance of
organizational unit, electronic music organization[2]

Status and dates

Inception
1958[5]
Dissolved, abolished or demolished
March 1998[6]

People

Founder
Daphne Oram, Desmond Briscoe[3][4]
More facts +2
Described by source
UbuWeb[7]
Significant person
Wikidata item[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en BBC Radiophonic Workshop ja BBCレディオフォニック・ワークショップ ko BBC 래디오포닉 워크숍 zh BBC廣播聲學工作室 zh BBC播音工作室 zh BBC無線電聲音工作坊 zh 廣播聲效 zh 英國廣播公司音效工作室 zh-hant BBC廣播聲學工作室
🔖 Identifiers · 31
VIAF cluster ID
123203659
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n84070062
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
BBC Radiophonic Workshop (1958-98) machines - Tape Recorder with tape loop equipment, Beat Frequency Oscillator & EMS Putney VCS3.jpg ↗
AllMusic artist ID
mn0000071374
BBC Things ID
ee551e9c-0684-4541-88cf-94ac5de99bd9
Bandcamp profile ID
radiophonicworkshop
Described at URL
whitefiles.org
Discogs artist ID
131040
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID
bbc_radiophonic_workshop_the
Fandom article ID
tardis:BBC_Radiophonic_Workshop
Freebase ID
/m/0hh21
Hoopla artist ID
520805422
Show all 31 identifiers +19
IHeart artist ID
31667716
IMDb ID
co0098856
J9U entity ID
987007604725505171
MusicBrainz artist ID
39f0d457-37ba-43b9-b0a9-05214bae5d97
MusicBrainz place ID
78696048-9e06-473c-b410-bf74e56d6117
Muziekweb performer ID
M00000062617
NTS Radio artist ID
4255
Pandora artist ID
ARzm5kxZwlXrb3X
Pitchfork artist ID
23573-bbc-radiophonic-workshop
Quora topic ID
BBC-Radiophonic-Workshop
Rate Your Music artist ID
the-bbc-radiophonic-workshop
Rock's Backpages artist ID
bbc-radiophonic-workshop
Songkick artist ID
8983669
Spotify artist ID
2slzcgeCx2awZXLNQ3iXVa
Topic's main category
Category:BBC Radiophonic Workshop
TuneIn artist ID
m327903
WhoSampled artist ID
BBC-Radiophonic-Workshop
Yale LUX ID
group/eb72a692-755e-47c6-b345-5513474088de
Yle topic ID
18-271264

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🔗 Connections
← Mb:member of band 17
Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Maddalena Fagandini, Brian Hodgson, Elizabeth Parker, Mark Ayres, David Cain, John Baker +9 more
Mb:performer of 12
BBC Radiophonic Music, BBC Radiophonic Workshop – A Retrospective, BBC Sound Effects No. 19: Doctor Who Sound Effects, Burials in Several Earths, Doctor Who: 30 Years at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 1: The Early Years 1963–1969, Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 2: New Beginnings 1970–1980, Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 3: The Leisure Hive +4 more
← Mb:founder 3
Desmond Briscoe, Donald McWhinnie, Frederick Bradnum
Described by source 1
UbuWeb
Founder 1
Daphne Oram
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Summary

BBC Radiophonic Workshop is an organizational unit[1].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[9]

  • Began / founded: 1958-04-01[10]

  • Ended / dissolved: 1998[11]

  • Genre(s): electronic[12]

  • Community tags: dance and electronica, electronic[13]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 39f0d457-37ba-43b9-b0a9-05214bae5d97[14]

Related Entities

UbuWeb

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [9] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · Vicarage · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described at URL → https://whitefiles.org/rwi/
    "Created claim: Described at URL: https://whitefiles.org/rwi/"
  2. 9w ago · Moebeus · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → organizational unit, electronic music organization
    Described by source → UbuWeb
    Founder → Daphne Oram, Desmond Briscoe
    Inception → 1958
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Significant person: Wikidata item"
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