Elizabeth Parker (composer)

Elizabeth Parker is a British film and television composer who worked at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop from 1978 until the workshop’s closure. Biography Parker graduated from the University of East Anglia with a degree in music, after which she completed a master’s degree in electronic music. When she first started working at the BBC she was training to become a studio manager. The BBC Radiophonic Workshop became redundant in the 1990s as electronic music equipment became cheaper, and the workshop was ultimately shut down in 1998. Parker worked at the workshop “right until the very end”. In the final years, the BBC could not justify the expense of upgrading the workshop’s equipment, leading Parker to describe the obsolete workshop in its final days as “horrendous” and “horrible”. * The David Attenborough documentary series The Living Planet. Parker continued to work on various television productions as a freelance composer. She wrote music for the BBC One documentary The Human Body and was commissioned to write new music for the soundtrack of a re-release of the comedy film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. References External links * *