Trailer; Reviews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxae7BPC9L0

A new feature-length cinematic portrait of pioneering electronic musician Delia Derbyshire, who famously conceived and arranged the original Doctor Who TV theme and was part of the legendary BBC Radiophonic Workshop crew. Among those on screen are Saskia Reeves, Cosey Fanni Tutti (of Throbbing Gristle, also responsible for the soundtrack) and the film’s director Caroline Catz, whose rendering of Derbyshire’s career is as creative as the woman herself. The film’s playful, psychedelic mix uses archival materials and interviews with Delia’s colleagues and collaborators, alongside dramatisations, Cosey Fanni Tutti’s psycho-sonic channeling and inventive juxtapositions that mirror the famously eccentric composer’s own unorthodox and questing spirit.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/may/16/delia-derbyshire-the-myths-and-the-legendary-tapes-review-playful-paean-to-a-musical-pioneer