Delia Derbyshire Archives

The late Delia Derbyshire composed and arranged the original Doctor Who theme with a combination of a theremin, guitar, and tape-sampling, decades before tape-sampling became widely used in pop music in the 1990s. Delia Derbyshire, composer of the "Doctor Who" theme, BBC Radiophonic Workshop The workshop has composed many of the theme music for BBC shows through[...]

Who knows how long these links will be up, so we might as well take advantage of them while they're still around. Let's start with the remastered, rearranged 2005 version of Delia Derbyshire and Ron Grainer's original theme for the show: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8uZy4nWopo[/youtube]   To herald the new show back in 2005, the most evocative theme from the first two[...]