Peter Howell
Peter Howell (born 1949) 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 psychedelic folk bands including Agincourt and Ithaca. Howell and Ferdinando recorded five albums before Howell became a member of the Radiophonic Workshop, with which he would remain associated until 1997.
His work on Doctor Who began in 1975 when he provided some accompanying incidental music for Revenge of the Cybermen and special sound for Planet of Evil. When John Nathan-Turner became producer of Doctor Who in 1980, he decided that the music needed to be updated and commissioned Howell to provide a new arrangement of the Doctor Who theme to accompany a new title sequence.
Howell's new arrangement first appeared in 1980 on The Leisure Hive, for which Howell had also recorded the incidental score, and was used throughout Tom Baker's final season on the programme as well as Peter Davison's tenure as the Doctor and Colin Baker's first season. Between 1980 and 1985 Howell also provided incidental music for ten stories of Doctor Who. In 1986, Nathan-Turner commissioned a new theme arrangement by Dominic Glynn, ending Howell's association with Doctor Who on television.
Since 2013 he has been part of the Radiophonic Workshop Band, touring the UK and abroad with Radiophonic archivist Mark Ayres and other former members of the Workshop.
In 2021, Howell published his autobiography Radiophonic Times via Obverse Books.
Fotos
Películas (52)
Doctor Who at 60: A Musical Celebration
2023 · Himself
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015 · Sound
Return of the Unknown
2014 · Music
Doctor Who at the Proms
2013 · Self, Music
The Ties That Bind Us
2008 · Theme Song Performance
A New Beginning
2004
From Avalon to Argolis
2004 · Music
The Alchemists of Sound
2003 · Self
Adventures in Time and Spain
2003 · Music
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
1999 · Original Music Composer
The Real Jurassic Park
1993 · Original Music Composer
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
1990 · Music
Double Image
1986 · Music
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
1985 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Timelash
1985 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: The Two Doctors
1985 · Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani
1985 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos
1985 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen
1985 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma
1984 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
1984 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Planet of Fire
1984 · Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
1984 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Frontios
1984 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: The Awakening
1984 · Theme Song Performance, Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep
1984 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
1983 · Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: The King's Demons
1983 · Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Enlightenment
1983 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Terminus
1983 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
1983 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Snakedance
1983 · Theme Song Performance, Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity
1983 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Time-Flight
1982 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Earthshock
1982 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Black Orchid
1982 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: The Visitation
1982 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Kinda
1982 · Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday
1982 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Castrovalva
1982 · Theme Song Performance
K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend
1981 · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Logopolis
1981 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken
1981 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate
1981 · Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: State of Decay
1980 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Full Circle
1980 · Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Meglos
1980 · Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive
1980 · Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance
The New Sound of Music
1979 · Self
Doctor Who: Planet of Evil
1975 · Special Sound Effects
Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen
1975 · Original Music Composer
Tomorrow Come Someday
1969 · Music
Series (6)
The Ultimate Guide
1996 · Music
The Dream Machine
1991 · Original Music Composer
The Children of Green Knowe
1986 · Original Music Composer
Who, Sir? Me, Sir?
1985 · Original Music Composer
The Shock of the New
1980 · Music
Doctor Who
1963 · Theme Song Performance, Original Music Composer