Delia Derbyshire doc-drama

[Seanm]

With Cosey Fanni Tutti!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000w6tr

Not the sort of thing you still expect to find on the BBC. Good when it happens though.

 

[wylton]

That should be worth watching.

 

[Tony L]

It is. I watched it last week, very good indeed.

 

[Seeker_UK]

The one that she and Sonic Boom did for Radio 4 was rather good too.

 

[Mr Neds]

Recorded and looking forward to....

 

[Big Tabs]

I enjoyed the programme, but didn’t enjoy the acting/dramatisation. I would have preferred a straight documentary. Well worth a viewing.

The idea of her getting wrecked in the studio is debatable, I hope it did happen, but not so sure.
Certainly Delia was one of a kind, and definitely held back by men, as women are nowadays, still.

 

[Mr Neds]

Oh Christ, not the dreaded " dramatic reconstruction" ? That's put me right off

 

[Tony L]

Don’t be put off, it was very good, and I loved the way Cosey was lurking in the background at times almost as a ghost of the future.

 

[Graham H]

I enjoyed the programme, but didn’t enjoy the acting/dramatisation. I would have preferred a straight documentary. Well worth a viewing.

The idea of her getting wrecked in the studio is debatable, I hope it did happen, but not so sure.
Certainly Delia was one of a kind, and definitely held back by men, as women are nowadays, still.

I was sure sick of that bike being pushed around by the end of it, and as you mention I think it created as many myths as it tried to debunk. I’m familiar with DD’s work beyond Dr. Who, but the programme left me thinking the unthinkable - was her work really on a par with some of her female contemporaries, such as Elaine Radigue, Beatrice Ferreyra, Daphne Oram, Pauline Oliveros, Else Marie Pade, Christina Kubisch?

 

[Mr Neds]

Finally watched most of it. I found it so annoying that I turned it off about two thirds of the way through. Apart from the fact that the actress playing her was gorgeous (Caroline Catz?) it was largely nonsense. I loved the bits of her standing up to the old boy network though......