Peter Howell
Sound
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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.
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Filmography
Acting
39 credits
Doctor Who
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
Doctor Who: Kinda
The Ties That Bind Us
Doctor Who: The Two Doctors
Doctor Who: Logopolis
Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Doctor Who: Time-Flight
Doctor Who: Meglos
Doctor Who at the Proms
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Doctor Who: Timelash
Doctor Who: Enlightenment
Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
Doctor Who: Frontios
Doctor Who: Snakedance
Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive
Doctor Who at 60: A Musical Celebration
Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday
Doctor Who: Earthshock
Doctor Who: The Awakening
Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken
Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep
Doctor Who: Full Circle
Doctor Who: Castrovalva
Doctor Who: Black Orchid
Doctor Who: The King's Demons
Doctor Who: Planet of Evil
Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani
Doctor Who: State of Decay
Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity
Doctor Who: The Visitation
Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen
Doctor Who: Terminus
Doctor Who: Planet of Fire
Other credits
25 credits
The Dream Machine
The Ultimate Guide
Who, Sir? Me, Sir?
The Shock of the New
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
Doctor Who: Kinda
Doctor Who: The Two Doctors
Double Image
K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Doctor Who: Meglos
Doctor Who at the Proms
Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen
Doctor Who: Snakedance
Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
Doctor Who: The Awakening
Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate
Return of the Unknown
Doctor Who: The King's Demons
A New Beginning
Doctor Who: Planet of Fire
Adventures in Time and Spain
Tomorrow Come Someday
From Avalon to Argolis
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