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.
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.
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
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!