A rare photo of Delia Derbyshire and Daphne Oram together, believed to have been taken by Malcolm Clarke at the 25th anniversary of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Oram left the Workshop several years before Derbyshire joined, in order to set up her own studio nd develop her Oramics system, but apparently the two became friends in later life, visiting each other regularly in the years before they both passed away, within two years of each other, at the very start of the 21st century. Photo is copyright Brian Hodgson.
There’s a black-and-white version of this photo in Louis Niebur’s Special Sound; I had no idea the original was in...