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Delia Derbyshire has long enjoyed legendary status among fans and creators of electronic music. Not bad going considering Grainer’s original score had been described as “a scribble on top of a piece of manuscript paper”. Derbyshire studied mathematics and music at Cambridge University and after brief stints at the United Nations in Geneva and a primary school in her hometown of Coventry, she joined the BBC in 1960 as a trainee assistant studio manager.