Peter Howell (born c. 1948) is a musician and composer. He is best known for his work on Doctor Who as a member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Howell's musical career began in the late 1960s working with John Ferdinando in various psych folk bands including Agincourt and Ithaca. His psych folk work also included a musical version of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and a comedy musical entitled Tomorrow Come Someday. Howell and Ferdinando recorded five albums before Howell became a member of the Radiophonic Workshop. In 1970 he became a studio manager at the BBC and in 1974 he joined the Radiophonic Workshop with which he would remain associated until 1997.
Peter Adrian Howell (born 29 July 1941) is a British academic and historian.
Career
Howell began his career in 1964 as an assistant lecturer at the University of London; he later was promoted to lecturer in the Latin Department at Bedford College, where he remained until 1985. He moved to the Classics Department of the Royal Holloway and Bedford New College as lecturer from 1985 until 1994, and as senior lecturer from 1994-99.
In basketball, a double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in one of five statistical categories—points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocked shots—in a game. Multiple players usually score double-digit points in any given basketball game; the double nomenclature is usually reserved for when a player has double-digit totals in more than one category. A double-double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in two of the five categories in a game. The most common double-double combination is points-rebounds, followed by points-assists. Since the 1985–86 season, Tim Duncan leads the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the points-rebounds combination with 830 and John Stockton leads the points-assists combination with 709. A triple-double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in three of the five categories in a game. The most common way to achieve a triple-double is through points, rebounds, and assists. Oscar Robertson leads the all-time NBA list with 181 and is the only player ever to average a triple-double for a season. LeBron James leads the list among active players with 40. A quadruple-double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in four of the five categories in a game. This has occurred five times in the NBA. A quintuple-double is the accumulation of a double-digit number total in all five categories in a game. Two quintuple-doubles have been recorded by high school girls, but none have occurred in college or professional games. A similar accomplishment is the five-by-five, which is the accumulation of at least five points, five rebounds, five assists, five steals, and five blocks in a game. In the NBA, only Hakeem Olajuwon, Andrei Kirilenko and Draymond Green have accumulated multiple five-by-fives since the 1985–86 season.
Tim Hortons Double Double, a coffee with two creams and two sugars
Double-double arithmetic, a technique in floating-point arithmetic and numerical analysis for attaining roughly quadruple precision by combining pairs of double precision quantities
A doubled set of double yellow lines, used in some parts of the US to indicate a painted median strip
In computing, quadruple precision (also commonly shortened to quad precision) is a binary floating-point-based computer number format that occupies 16 bytes (128 bits) in computer memory and whose precision is about twice the 53-bit double precision.
This 128 bit quadruple precision is designed not only for applications requiring results in higher than double precision, but also, as a primary function, to allow the computation of double precision results more reliably and accurately by minimising overflow and round-off errors in intermediate calculations and scratch variables: as William Kahan, primary architect of the original IEEE-754 floating point standard noted, "For now the 10-byte Extended format is a tolerable compromise between the value of extra-precise arithmetic and the price of implementing it to run fast; very soon two more bytes of precision will become tolerable, and ultimately a 16-byte format... That kind of gradual evolution towards wider precision was already in view when IEEE Standard 754 for Floating-Point Arithmetic was framed."
A regular in 1950s television hospital drama series Emergency – Ward 10, he has made guest appearances in The Avengers, The Prisoner, and the Doctor Who serial The Mutants. He played the prison governor in the 1979 film Scum. He played Saruman in the 1981 BBC Radio production of The Lord of the Rings. He also featured in the Yes Minister "Equal Opportunities" (1982) as a committee member. In the long running Radio 4 drama The Archers he had a recurring role as Right Reverend Cyril Hood, Bishop of Felpersham.
Howell played the role of Sir William Lucas in the 1980 BBC Miniseries "Pride & Prejudice" by Jane Austen, a miniseries also featuring Elizabeth Garvie and David Rintoul.
Howell died on 20 April 2015 after a short illness, aged 95.
1982: Peter Howell gives the DOCTOR WHO THEME an 80s REMIX | Making of | BBC Archive
Peter Howell of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop demonstrates how he reimagined Ron Grainer's classic Doctor Who theme - which was first realised so startlingly by Delia Derbyshire and Dick Mills in the 1960s - to make it 'brighter and more modern sounding' for the 1980s. He uses modern polyphonic analogue synthesisers like the Yamaha CS-80, an ARP Odyssey Mk3 and a Roland Jupiter-4, a vocoder and an old, malfunctioning phase shifter unit he found in the back of the Workshop.
Gent that he is, he then pops over to the Music Arcade studio to demonstrate the extraordinary new Fairlight CMI Series II synthesiser to the some kids from St Mary's Balham Primary School and hosts Tim Whitnall and Lucie Skeaping.
This clip is from The Music Arcade: Electricity in Music. Originally broadcast 2 Februar...
published: 19 Feb 2022
1980 Peter Howell - Full Theme Stereo Remaster 2018
Artist : Peter Howell
Album : Legend
Year : 1984
Country : England
Label : New World Cassettes
TRACKLIST :
A
1. Golden Space
B
2. Silver Journeys
published: 07 May 2020
Doctor Who theme - Peter Howell's Masterclass (1981)
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published: 21 Nov 2015
Doctor Who Theme Tune 1980-1985 by Peter Howell
Doctor Who Theme Tune 1980-1985 by Peter Howell
published: 30 Dec 2007
Peter Howell - Greenwich Chorus
The infamous sequence from 'The Body In Question', nicely redubbed with clean stereo audio.
published: 30 Jun 2012
Dr Who (How To Remake TV Theme)
Peter Howell shows how he uses Yamaha CS-80 & ARP ODYSSEY sounds to remake Dr.Who TV theme.
published: 03 Jan 2008
Peter Howell & The Radiophonic Workshop 'Through A
One of the best BBC Radiophonic releases in my opinion from 1978. This is the complete track titled 'Through A Glass Darkly'
Peter Howell of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop demonstrates how he reimagined Ron Grainer's classic Doctor Who theme - which was first realised so startlingly by ...
Peter Howell of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop demonstrates how he reimagined Ron Grainer's classic Doctor Who theme - which was first realised so startlingly by Delia Derbyshire and Dick Mills in the 1960s - to make it 'brighter and more modern sounding' for the 1980s. He uses modern polyphonic analogue synthesisers like the Yamaha CS-80, an ARP Odyssey Mk3 and a Roland Jupiter-4, a vocoder and an old, malfunctioning phase shifter unit he found in the back of the Workshop.
Gent that he is, he then pops over to the Music Arcade studio to demonstrate the extraordinary new Fairlight CMI Series II synthesiser to the some kids from St Mary's Balham Primary School and hosts Tim Whitnall and Lucie Skeaping.
This clip is from The Music Arcade: Electricity in Music. Originally broadcast 2 February, 1982.
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Peter Howell of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop demonstrates how he reimagined Ron Grainer's classic Doctor Who theme - which was first realised so startlingly by Delia Derbyshire and Dick Mills in the 1960s - to make it 'brighter and more modern sounding' for the 1980s. He uses modern polyphonic analogue synthesisers like the Yamaha CS-80, an ARP Odyssey Mk3 and a Roland Jupiter-4, a vocoder and an old, malfunctioning phase shifter unit he found in the back of the Workshop.
Gent that he is, he then pops over to the Music Arcade studio to demonstrate the extraordinary new Fairlight CMI Series II synthesiser to the some kids from St Mary's Balham Primary School and hosts Tim Whitnall and Lucie Skeaping.
This clip is from The Music Arcade: Electricity in Music. Originally broadcast 2 February, 1982.
The BBC has thrown the TARDIS doors wide open to celebrate 60 years of Doctor Who, and there's a huge amount of archive inside. Interviews, photos and documents sit alongside hundreds of programmes from the Whoniverse on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds. Begin your journey at https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho
You have now entered the BBC Archive, an audiovisual time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV to educate, entertain and enlighten you through our classic clips from the BBC vaults.
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As an early Christmas present, I thought I'd give you guys my Howell remix for next year.
Each year I get better at my remixing and the Howell theme shows thi...
The original upload of this video from ages ago has unfortunately vanished without a trace. I've no idea what the original source was, but thanks to some dedica...
The original upload of this video from ages ago has unfortunately vanished without a trace. I've no idea what the original source was, but thanks to some dedicated Doctor Who fans rediscovering it, here it is again!
If anyone has any proper info on this feature, please do share!
The original upload of this video from ages ago has unfortunately vanished without a trace. I've no idea what the original source was, but thanks to some dedicated Doctor Who fans rediscovering it, here it is again!
If anyone has any proper info on this feature, please do share!
Peter Howell of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop demonstrates how he reimagined Ron Grainer's classic Doctor Who theme - which was first realised so startlingly by Delia Derbyshire and Dick Mills in the 1960s - to make it 'brighter and more modern sounding' for the 1980s. He uses modern polyphonic analogue synthesisers like the Yamaha CS-80, an ARP Odyssey Mk3 and a Roland Jupiter-4, a vocoder and an old, malfunctioning phase shifter unit he found in the back of the Workshop.
Gent that he is, he then pops over to the Music Arcade studio to demonstrate the extraordinary new Fairlight CMI Series II synthesiser to the some kids from St Mary's Balham Primary School and hosts Tim Whitnall and Lucie Skeaping.
This clip is from The Music Arcade: Electricity in Music. Originally broadcast 2 February, 1982.
The BBC has thrown the TARDIS doors wide open to celebrate 60 years of Doctor Who, and there's a huge amount of archive inside. Interviews, photos and documents sit alongside hundreds of programmes from the Whoniverse on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds. Begin your journey at https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho
You have now entered the BBC Archive, an audiovisual time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV to educate, entertain and enlighten you through our classic clips from the BBC vaults.
Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive - https://www.youtube.com/c/BBCArchive?sub_confirmation=1
The original upload of this video from ages ago has unfortunately vanished without a trace. I've no idea what the original source was, but thanks to some dedicated Doctor Who fans rediscovering it, here it is again!
If anyone has any proper info on this feature, please do share!
When we first met you took my hand And I'll never understand Why you changed so drastically Did you really think I would Let myself get stepped on by someone as low as you Now it's time for you to pay for your lies Some day you might understand Sometimes it's easier to deny Than see your own lies, look at yourself You will not forget me when I'm gone ( repeat 3 ) Things have changed yet it's still same Only the memories remain And you can't push them away Don't you feel ashamed I guess you never thought it would end up in such a mess Now it's time for you to pay for your lies Some day you might understand Sometimes it's easier to deny Than see your own lies, look at yourself You will not forget me when I'm gone ( repeat 3 ) I never felt so fucking cheated Cause your leaving with a part of me I'll never find again My confidence in people And that wonderful feeling of being safe When I'm alone Did you really think I would Let myself get stepped on by someone as low as you You'll pay for your lies Some day you might understand Sometimes it's easier to deny Than see your own lies, look at yourself I'm coming back and I will prove your life again You better start shaking some hands Cause you'll be living on command I'd like to see you some day walking in my shoes And see if you could last