Doctor Who & The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Twenty Thousand Hertz
Dallas Taylor
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In the last few years, AI has made some incredible things possible in the world of audio. |
| 0:07.0 | One tool that my team and I at DeFacto Sound often use is called La La Lie. |
| 0:11.7 | It uses AI to split apart the sonic elements of any audio or video file, like separating voice |
| 0:18.5 | from music, or even splitting a song into individual instruments. |
| 0:23.3 | Their latest model is called Andromeda, and it's their most advanced version yet. |
| 0:27.9 | Here's a quick demo. |
| 0:29.1 | We start with this. |
| 0:35.0 | Run it through La La La Lie, and then get all of this. |
| 0:38.4 | Lookin' through my files and I'll check in the news. |
| 0:46.3 | Right now, until February 26th, our listeners can get 20% off a La La La LaS subscription using promo code 20K. That code only works |
| 0:57.9 | if you pay by card and not PayPal. To sign up, visit |
| 1:01.8 | la la lao-a-l-al-a-I and use promo code |
| 1:05.3 | 20K. You'll find a link in the show description. |
| 1:13.1 | You're listening to 20,000 Hertz. |
| 1:18.1 | The stories behind the world's most iconic and fascinating sounds. |
| 1:23.7 | I'm Dallas Taylor. |
| 1:27.1 | Here in the U.S., most people have probably never heard of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. |
| 1:33.2 | Even as a sound designer, I had never heard of it until well into my career. |
| 1:37.6 | But over in the UK, the Radiophonic Workshop was a cultural institution for four decades. |
| 1:44.0 | It was basically a pioneering sound design department funded by the British government, |
| 1:49.0 | almost like NASA, but for sound. |
| 1:52.0 | And it was staffed by a rag-tag group of engineers and composers whose entire job was to craft |
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