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DELIA DERBYSHIRE, THE MYTHS AND THE LEGENDARY TAPES

BBC

7/10

Playful drama-doc eulogy to Radiophonic pioneer. By Stephen Troussé

TWENTY years after her death, the legend of Delia Derbyshire grows ever more vivid. There have been documentaries, plays, blue plaques, Coventry street names and arguably an entire genre – hauntology – devised to recapture the formative rapture of some uncanny Derbyshire drone in the background of a BBC Schools’ maths programme in 1967.

Now Caroline Catz’s crosses the streams of dramatic reconstruction, feminist revisionism and metafictional reverie. It doesn’t

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