The Delia Derbyshire Day archive now available

We are pleased to announce the Delia Derbyshire Day archive at John Rylands Research Institure and Library, Manchester, is now accessible. You can access the archive catalogue online via the Elgar online system.  You can visit the collection in person at John Rylands...

Listen to Delia Derbyshire Day 2023 broadcasts

Welcome to this smorgasbord of Delia Derbyshire Day 2023 broadcasts!  With thanks to those who gave us a platform and helped to amplify the love and respect for the late great Delia Derbyshire as a key figure in the development of electronic music in the UK, at least....

Delia and the Doctor Who theme

A guest blog post by one of our DD Day 2023 volunteers, Will Davis While working at the BBC as a trainee Studio Manager, Delia Derbyshire asked to be attached to the Radiophonic Workshop. This was set up to create music and sound effects for BBC programming, using...

Delia Derbyshire Day 2023 Manchester event info

This year’s DD Day, on 23 November 2023 is centred around the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who and its hugely influential theme tune, realised by Delia and her tape assistant Dick Mills in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, working from Ron Grainer’s musical...

Kids make their own wobbulators!

Wobbulator making activity for our DD Day 2023 Doctor Who 60th project As part of the 10 Inspirational Days we have designed and delivered in primary schools in Manchester, schoolchildren aged 9-11 have learned about the diverse original Doctor Who production team and...

DD Day 2023 Doctor 60th heritage project is go!

WELCOME TO DD DAY 2023 Welcome to our Delia Derbyshire Day 2023 programme of activities. Supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, we are doing our best to provide electronic music education and inspiration, honouring the 60th anniversary year of BBC sci-fi...

DD Day 2022 – what will you share?

Wed 23 Nov 2022, online DD Day 2022 will be an online (and no budget!) happening.  As momentum builds each year internationally on this day, we invite you to share your inspiration and appreciation. We will also share some Delia-n related news and introduce our new DD...

DD Day Spring news update for 2022

A few announcements from DD Day HQ as we prepare to return to a couple of music/science festivals this summer, honour a generous donation and let you know what we have planned for 2022 and beyond. 2022 is looking like a quieter year for us publicly as we reflect on...

DD Day 2021 project review

 A ROUND UP OF OUR DD DAY 2021 ACTIVITIES Our DD Day 2021 programme of activities is now officially complete. Our “Covid Creative Response” project which ran throughout 2021 was gratefully supported by Arts Council England and The Granada Foundation and...

Presenting new art created for DD Day 2021

Another DD Day completed, we now present to you the new art work that premiered on 23/11/21. The new works are informed and inspired by Delia’s work, working methods and archive collection based here in Manchester, UK. We find in our work that Delia consistently...

DD Day 2021 new art commissions trailers!

DD Day 2021 – 4 new artist commissions producing 2 new audio visual works We are excited to be able to offer 4 artists commissions this year as part of our Delia Derbyshire Day 2021 project. These will be 2 x new electronic music/sound and visual based art...

Introducing our DD Day 2021 commissioned artists

DD Day 2021 – 4 new artist commissions producing 2 new audio visual works We are excited to be able to offer 4 artists commissions this year as part of our Delia Derbyshire Day 2021 project. We – and our funders – felt it was particularly important...

DD Day 2021 is go!

WELCOME TO DD DAY 2021 Welcome to our Delia Derbyshire Day 2021 programme of activities. Supported by Arts Council England and The Granada Foundation we are doing our best to provide electronic music education and inspiration, especially at this time. The theme of...

Found sounds in the home music making project

The Matthew Nicholls Foundation recently approached us to suggest we try out a found sound project with secondary school students in these unprecedented times. The Matthew Nicholls Foundation supported our Electric Storm 50 creative residency at Loreto College last...