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Brian Hodgson is truly a pioneer of sound,

a composer and member of the famous BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

He began work on television in an era long before computers and the digital technology and

AI, his modern-day counterparts rely on to produce audio for

shows such as Doctor Who.

That particular show returns to our screen to and is largely unrecognizable from the show that first aired 60 years ago.

The titular character has changed appearance more than a dozen times.

Fundamentals of the Doctor's origin and backstory have been written altered and revised by dozens

of writers over the decades, while the interior of his famous spaceship, the Tardis,

is radically different.

Even the iconic design of his infamous cyborg rivals the Daleks has been tinkered with.

But two key aspects of the show remain unchanged, and they are both crucial audio features

introduced by Brian Hodson.

But before we discuss the body of his work, it's worth remembering that the Britain of the early

1960s, when he first joined the BBC, was a very different world than one we know today.

While it was rapidly unraveling, Britain still had the remnants of an empire,

and Victorian attitudes were pervasive in the institutions, even at the BBC.

Brian, I read an amusing anecdote to viewers that when you first started working at the

BBC there was a pretty strict uniform dress code and you caused

a little bit of a stir by slightly deviating from it.

What when I joined the BBC, me appearing with a cravat instead of a tie on a Saturday afternoon,

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