To mark the sixtieth anniversary of Physician Who, radio and tv presenter Jo Whiley hosts a really particular version of Sunday Evening is Music Evening on BBC Radio 2 – Physician Who @ 60: A Musical Celebration, with the BBC Nationwide Orchestra of Wales and the BBC Singers, performed by Alastair King, celebrating the fantastic musical sounds of the long-lasting and much-loved TV collection.
“As listeners to my Radio 2 present know I’m a HUGE Physician Who fan,” Wiley enthused. “So presenting this live performance is a dream come true. How higher to mark the unbelievable sixtieth anniversary of the present than with this excellent celebration of the music that has featured throughout the a long time.”
Since its launch on BBC Tv in November 1963, Physician Who has been delighting hundreds of thousands of followers everywhere in the world as they’ve adopted the adventures of the Time Lord. With its immediately recognisable theme, specifically composed music has all the time been on the coronary heart of the present.
The live performance encompasses a stay up for the keenly-awaited sixtieth anniversary specials, a world-exclusive first reside efficiency of Ruby Sunday’s (the Physician’s new companion) theme The Lifetime of Sunday, the theme tune of the Fifteenth Physician known as Fifteenth, and the brand new iteration of the long-lasting Physician Who theme tune, brilliantly reimagined by composer Murray Gold, who was interviewed on the evening, in addition to fellow composer Segun Akinola. Followers of the present can even recognise I Am The Physician, Abigail’s Tune, This Is Gallifrey, The Inconceivable Woman, I Am A Good Man and The Shepherd’s Boy. There’s additionally a visit again in time to the traditional years of Physician Who from the Sixties, 70s and 80s that includes the classic synthesisers of BBC Radiophonic Workshop veterans Mark Ayres and Peter Howell.
Present showrunner Russell T Davies and former showrunners Steven Moffat and Chris Chibnall contributed their phrases to the celebration. Seventh Physician and companion actors Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred had been launched and loved the music from the viewers.
The live performance was recorded on the house of BBC Nationwide Orchestra of Wales – Hoddinott Corridor on the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff. Physician Who was relaunched in 2005, and primarily filmed in and round Cardiff. The collection returns in November 2023 with three particular episodes with David Tennant returning to the present because the Fourteenth Physician, alongside Catherine Tate who’s reprising her position as Donna Noble. Ncuti Gatwa will take over because the Fifteenth Physician over the festive interval.
Within the autumn, Physician Who actors will share the music that has been the soundtrack to their life, from childhood by means of to now in Radio 2’s My Life in a Mixtape.
Physician Who @ 60: A Musical Celebration will transmit on BBC Radio 2 on 15 October 2023 at 8pm and can obtainable on BBC Sounds. It was additionally filmed for BBC iPlayer, to be broadcast at a later date.