Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes, BBC Four
“A loving, almost dreamy paean to the woman who started her career as an assistant in the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop and became a pioneer of electronic music as we know it today. Much like Derbyshire’s sounds, the film, made by and starring the Doc Martin actress Caroline Catz, had a trippy, hallucinatory feel as we saw snapshots of her life, the sexism she endured and her experimentation with magnetic tape, bottles and lampshades to create new sounds.”
“This could have been a sombre, straight documentary, but it feels fitting that it is playful and, for much of it, a lot of fun. Even a scene in which Derbyshire wrestles with her demons has her conversing with paintings of Ada Lovelace and Mary Wollstonecraft. It ends with the imaginary voice of Derbyshire dismantling her own obituary, point by point, playfully sparring with the myths that had built up around her life. “Golly, am I glad I came back,” she sa
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