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The Craft and Art of the Radiophonic Workshop
Though the Radiophonic Workshop was opened on 1 April 1958, it was very adequately described in 1624 by Francis Bacon in The New Atlantis.
'Wee have also Sound-houses, wher wee practise and demonstrate all Sounds, and their Generation. Wee have Harmonies which you have not, of Quarter-Sounds, and lesser Slides of Sounds. Diverse Instruments of Musick likewise to you unknowne....'
Devised by Desmond Briscoe and compiled and introduced by Michael Smee Produced for the Radiophonic Workshop by David Rayvern Allen
(Sound in Mind: tomorrow 9.10 pro) (Desmond Briscoe writes in THE LISTENER dated 29 March)

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Francis Bacon
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Desmond Briscoe
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Michael Smee
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David Rayvern Allen
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Desmond Briscoe
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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