Paddy Kingsland
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Paddy Kingsland is a composer of electronic music best known for his incidental music for science fiction series on BBC radio and television whilst working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. He joined the BBC as a tape editor before moving on to become a studio manager for BBC Radio 1. In 1970 he joined the Radiophonic Workshop where he remained until 1981. His initial work was mostly signature tunes for BBC radio and TV programmes before going on to record incidental music for programmes including The Changes, two versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: the second radio series and the TV adaptation, as well as several serials of Doctor Who. His work on the latter series included incidental music for the following serials (in order of transmission):
Other well known series which contained music composed by Paddy Kingsland are and Pole to Pole, both travel series by Michael Palin. Paddy Kingsland also composed music for many schools' television series including Words and Pictures, Rat-a-tat-tat, Watch, Numbercrew, English Express and the Look and Read stories "Joe and the Sheep Rustlers" and "The Boy from Space".
In 1973, Fourth Dimension, a compilation of his early signature tune work for the Radiophonic Workshop, was released and in 2002 his incidental scores for the Doctor Who serials "Meglos" and "Full Circle" featured as part of the compilation series.
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