The BBC Radiophonic Workshop: Back To The Future
Jude Rogers, The Daily Note, 6 December 2011
A group of outsiders left to their own devices, the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop took avant-garde electronics and strange new sounds into the nation's living rooms in the 1950s and 1960s, writes Jude Rogers.
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