The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was based in Delaware Road in London’s Maida Vale, opened by Desmond Briscoe on April Fools Day 1958. For many years the BBC had a department for sound effects, where ...

The BBC's Radiophonic Workshop, a pioneering force in sound effects, would have been 50 this month. Ten years after it was disbanded, what remains of its former glory? Deep in the bowels of BBC Maida ...

“If you want the sound of a car crash you can go to the sound effects library,” says Mark Ayres, of the Radiophonic Workshop. “But if you want the sound of a nervous breakdown, what do you do then?” ...