"It's very humbling, you see. It's like being told you're responsible for a whole new family you never knew you had," says Dr. Dick Mills, when asked how he feels about his influence on bands such as Roxy Music and Hot Chip.

Mills is one of the original employees of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, a department within the broadcaster which produced original sound effects and music from 1958 until it closed in 1998. Perhaps most notably, the Radiophonic Workshop produced the original theme tune to Doctor Who in 1963, a hugely inluential piece of early electronic music.

"As the techniques got better and the machinery got better, the sounds got better and there was less distortion," explains Mills.

The Workshop was at the cutting edge of pioneering sound technology and created the soundtracks to some of the station's best loved programmes, such as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Body in Question.

Original staff, such as Mills and others, are presenting their show The Radiophonic Workshop: Out of the TARDIS - An Evening of Doctor Who at the National Concert Hall (NCH) on May 20th.