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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

📣 MCR people! 📣 For Delia Derbyshire Day 2026, we're having a relaxed low key, no budget get together at Manchester Central Library. Join us for nerdy chat and check out the new recording booth and production suite in the Henry Watson Music Library. More info coming soon...

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We’ve been developing our primary school education work this year, as we try to take our Big Give supported Electronic Music Education Needs Analysis from 2025 to the next stage. More news coming soon... Music: Thunder of Life by Electric Storm workshops participants, 2019. #electronicmusic

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🎶 Education episode 🎶 Caro C, Zolatec & Mandy Wigby unpacking how & why we facilitate learning to make music the #deliaderbyshireday way, inspired by heritage of #deliaderbyshire. Listen on all podcast platforms. Image design by Andrea Pazos. Supported by @heritagefunduk.bsky.social #musiceducation

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

💡Did you know? #deliaderbyshire has a building named after her at Coventry University. Recognition for a self-defined “working class girl from #coventry.” Our 2025 team of amazing volunteers recorded these factoids, gratefully supported by @heritagefunduk.bsky.social

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🛒 Check out our new look shop! 🛒 deliaderbyshireday.com/shop/ We have a humble selection of gifts for you and others. All proceeds go to help with our annual costs and activities. Please contact us for overseas shipping costs.

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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Two days left to send us your ideas for adventurous short documentaries on @josielong.bsky.social’s Short Cuts! You can find all the pitching info here: www.fallingtree.co.uk/pitch

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Our Summer newsletter: a little update from DD Day HQ, Delia-n sounds on BBC Radio this weekend by and artist opportunities from our friends at @brightersound.bsky.social & @oramawards.bsky.social mailchi.mp/b6fb8f3a3b36...

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A little update, Delian solstice sounds and sharing 2 artist opportunities

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Did u know? #deliaderbyshire has a blue plaque (heritage significance recognition) on the house the grew up in in #coventry. A more recent occupier found childhood artefacts which have been added to Delia’s archive at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social #musiccharity #womeninelectronicmusic #doctorwho

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Have you checked out our #deliaderbyshireday #podcast? Here’s 2025 volunteer Charlie asking Mark Ayres about material in the #deliaderbyshire #archive at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social 🔊🔊 listen to the 5 episodes, 30 mins each, on your favourite podcast platform. @heritagefunduk.bake.social supported

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Did You Know...? Volunteer Jae says "Delia created electronic music before samplers, computers, synths and mixing desks were widely available." Like many making music at the time, Delia used inventiveness. Dick Mills, who worked with Delia says "necessity was the mother of invention." Amazing in it?

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Today would have been #deliaderbyshire’s 89th birthday. We find Delia consistently inspires kids of all ages. 🎥 Belle Vue Productions, supported by @heritagefunduk.bsky.social, a short film about Delia available on our YouTube. #deliaderbyshireday #musiccharity #electronicmusic

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The DD Day shop is back! T shirts, mugs, badges. Support our work, while you buy nice things for the audiophile in your life, which might be you 🤓

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

💡Did You Know series 2026💡Our 2025 volunteer team share factoids about Delia Derbyshire. “Delia used a single piece of metal string to create that driving bassline of the original #DoctorWho theme" Like many making music with tape, Delia used found sounds (everyday objects/sounds) as sound sources.

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

📣 our podcast 📣 For the 2nd episode, our trustee Sashwati & commissioned artist Suzy Mangion talk about Delia’s creativity with David Vorhaus who worked with Delia and Brian Hodgson to create that cult album “An Electric Storm” in 1969. Listen on yr fave platform or visit Media page on our website.

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Creative freedom! Experimentation, risk-taking…A striking finding in our Electronic Music Education report written by @brightersound.bsky.social; initiative supported by @biggive.bsky.social, Postlethwaite Music Foundation, One Education. SHARE YR STORY of electronic music & creative freedom 🪩

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

📣Our Electronic Music Education Report is out 📣 10 teachers, 60 kids. There is a gap. It is bridgeable. Read summary & full report: deliaderbyshireday.com/education/ @biggive.bsky.social Report by @brightersound.bsky.social @oneeducation.bsky.social

Poster with dark blue background and words: electronic music education - Manchester’s primary schools - needs analysis report. A book icon below, then band of logos at the bottom: postlethwaite music Foundation, Bug Give Arts for Impact, Delia Derbyshire Day, One education Music, Brighter Sound

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Organisational objective 3 (of 3) 🤓✅ OPPORTUNITIES - say hi if you are one of them ✊🏽 As part of our 10th Anniversary, we published our Social Impact Report. ➡️ Read our full social impact report here: deliaderbyshireday.com/about-us/ Gratefully supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Organisational objective 2 (of 3) 🤓✅ As part of our 10th Anniversary, we published our Social Impact Report. ➡️ Read our full social impact report here: deliaderbyshireday.com/dd-day-socia... Gratefully supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Organisational objective 1 (of 3) 🤓✅ As part of our 10th Anniversary, we published our Social Impact Report. ➡️ Read our full social impact report here: deliaderbyshireday.com/dd-day-socia... Gratefully supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

We published our Social Impact Report carried out by Turn Up the Value, designed by Andrea Pazos 🤓🌟 Read our social impact report on DD Day website here: deliaderbyshireday.com/dd-day-socia... With thanks to National Lottery Heritage Fund Background image credit: Kara Blake

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

🎧 DD Day podcast 🎧 @carocsound, David Butler and @sashwatimira chat about the origin story and aims of our small charity centred around the archive of #deliaderbyshire at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social. Look us up on podcast platforms or listen via our website 🔊

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

📍We went to Barrow-in-Furness to deliver a weekend of DD Day events ➡️Did you know you can book us for screenings, performances, talks and workshops! A big thank you to the Full of Noises team, National Lottery Heritage Fund and everyone who came along for making this possible 📸Laurence Campbell

The Barrow-phonic workshop performance is shown. 3 people sit at tables at the side of the performance space surrounded by tech. In the foreground, someone in a green winter hat reaches towards a large green lampshade.

Commissioned artists ZOLATEC and hippiezilla sit at their tech desk with computers in front of them. They are bathed in green light.

Audience members are seated in the middle of the performance space and are surrounded by desks filled with tech for members of the Barrow-phonic workshop. Everyone is smiling and clapping.

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Young Identity @youngidentitymcr.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Young Identity are currently seeking a new Chair and other Trustees to join our board. Our new Trustees may come from many walks of life and we do not require prior board-level experience. Application Deadline: 6 April 2026 Interviews: 20 - 21 April 2026 Apply: youngidentity.org/get-involved

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Photos from our MCR event are here 🤓🎉 a massive thank you to everyone who came along to celebrate and all those involved to make this happen! ‌ 🙏📸Shirlaine Forrest ‌ Made possible thanks to support from National Lottery Heritage Fund and our project partners

Commissioned artist ZOLATEC plays the steel pan in the foreground in MCR Central Library’s foyer. Audience members gather to watch in the background.

DD Day volunteer in a grey DD Day t-shirt welcomes an audience member to the event. Information posters about DD Day fill the wall behind them.

The film screening room. A projector screen takes up a full wall and is filled with bright green leafy images. Audience members watch from seats and artists ZOLATEC and hippiezilla are seen at a control desk at the side of the room.

A group photo of facilitators, commissioned artists, volunteers, and trustees all smile and are bunched in together.

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Yorkshire Sound Women Network @yswn.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

🚂Plus there’s highlights of last month’s amazing Changing Gear concert at @railwaymuseum.bsky.social and a look at how our friends at @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social celebrated turning 10 recently. ⏩If you’re not already subscribed, read it here: mailchi.mp/e83efdae2f6a... 🧵2/2

Relaxed group photo of Changing Gear selected artists Diya Tailor, Rosie Parsons and Rhiannon Kenny McGrath standing laughing in front of a dark blue vintage train at the National Railway Museum.

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Ever wondered where the Delia Derbyshire and Delia Derbyshire Day archives are kept? Come with us to the Special Collections Room at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social in Manchester, England #deliaderbyshireday #deliaderbyshire #archives #heritage

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Yorkshire Sound Women Network @yswn.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

📣NEW CALLOUT: YSWN Rewired To celebrate YSWN turning 10 this year, we’re launching Rewired: artistic commissions for women and gender-diverse people working with electronic music and sound art in Yorks & the Humber. We're offering: • 3 micro-commissions of £750 • 1 main commission of £1,500 🧵1/4

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

📣2025 Creative Commission 3! After premiering last week at DD Day 2025, hear Alexis Maxwell talk more about her new audio-visual collaboration with Joy Ingle 🎥🎵 Check out the full commission on our DD Day webpage. Gratefully supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

📣2025 Creative Commission 2! After premiering last week at DD Day 2025, Andrea Pazos talks about new audio-visual work with Suzy Mangion @turningcircle.bsky.social inspired by heritage at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Full commission on website. Gratefully supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

📣2025 Creative Commission 1! ‌ After premiering last week at DD Day 2025, hear ZOLATEC talk more about her new audio-visual collaboration with hippiezilla 🎥🎵 ‌ Check out the full commission on our DD Day webpage. Gratefully supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

In honour of Delia Derbyshire Day, a little post about her collaboration at the BBC with the poet Rosemary Tonks @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/i-stop-bei...

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"I Stop Being Human"

Rosemary Tonks, Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

🔊📽️ NEW ART 📽️🔊 Creative responses to heritage by 6 Northwest England based artists. Gratefully supported by @heritagefunduk.bsky.social Check them out via our DD Day 2025 webpage: deliaderbyshireday.com/dd-day-2025-... think @turningcircle.bsky.social artist Suzy Mangion is the only one on here.

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

📣 Commission trailer 3! Joy Ingle and Alexis Maxwell have completed their new audio-visual work 🎥🎵 Our 2025 artists dove into the DD and DD Day Archive at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social with new creativity relating to heritage. Gratefully supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

📣 Commission trailer 2! As DD Day 2025 approaches, so does new art inspired by the heritage of Delia Derbyshire and DD Day Archives at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social ‌ Look out for videos on 23 Nov & see this piece screened at MCR Central Library on Sat. Supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

🎙️Our first #podcast series🎙️episode 3 is out today. Listen via our website or on your usual podcast platform. We hope you enjoy, learn, be inspired 🤓 #electronicmusicpodcast

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Our 10th Anniversary Manchester Event Poster! 🎟️🤓 ‌ 📷:Thank you to Andrea Pazos for designing the poster and our wonderful 2025 volunteer Tillie for her ‘10th’ tape logo design featured at the top 🙌 ‌ With thanks to support from National Lottery Heritage Fund and our project partners

Manchester Event Poster. Image of girl holding large green lampshade surrounded by clouds.
Text says: Play, Learn, Make. 22 November 2025 2-4pm Central Library Manchester www.deliaderbyshireday.com

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

💭 DD Day 10th Anniversary Reflections - our education work! Delia acts as inspiration for empowerment via creativity, technology and heritage 🤓🔉 ‌ 📹: Video clip and project produced in partnership with One Education, Manchester, UK ‌ #deliaderbyshireday #deliaderbyshire

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

💭 DD Day 10th Anniversary Reflections: we’re proud to celebrate a decade of career development opportunities through artist commissions, mentoring, project staff and volunteering… 🤓📋 📷: Shirlaine Forrest & Anna Budrys #deliaderbyshireday #deliaderbyshire

Collective artist residency at spirit studios Manchester, England. Background image: 4 Artists sitting in a recording studio discussing ideas. Quote in foreground: “I am happy to say that, as a result of my work on a DD Faay project, I am now a formal artist in residence at FACT Liverpool. I am so happy that the DDD project has unquestionably me to a profession as an artist” (artist feedback)

Two photos of groups of artists, volunteers and project staff. With a quote in the middle from a volunteer:” I am gaining invaluable experience and I do feel proud that I am able to contribute…to keeping Delia’s legacy alive and support a charity that is helping people access invaluable music education.”

In the background/frame: Painter/artist Tracey Zengeni with dark brown skin is in the process of making a colourful swirling live painting. Foreground has a quite from an artist: “a prestigious opportunity to out in my CV. It included valuable reflective practice due to working with the DD Archive and presenting at DWAN event (taking about working with Delia’s archive) which will feed into my practice based PhD.”

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The UK Association for Music Education: Music Mark @musicmarkuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Learn how to make & teach electronic music with @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social, with the iconic original Doctor Who theme as a starting point 🎶 Build confidence on GarageBand for a creative approach to composition to bring to your classroom 🥳 🔗See more: conference.musicmark.org.uk/schedule/202...

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Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

This is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and considered to be the first person to write a computer programme which was for Babbage's Analytical Machine. She died in 1842 In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Wordcloud reveal 💭 ‌ What Delia Derbyshire Day means to you…Thank you for sharing thoughts⚡ ‌ Delia consistently inspires! ‌ #deliaderbyshireday #deliaderbyshire #wordcloud #brainstorm

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Did you know we have a newsletter? ✉️ ‌ Join our community of curiosity-seekers and find out more about activities coming up in our September newsletter - out today! 🤓 ‌ 🔗Sign up at deliaderbyshireday.com ‌ #deliaderbyshireday #deliaderbyshire #musiccharity #electronicmusic #womeninelectronicmusic

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

📣Artists announcement! Suzy Mangion & Andrea Pazos are our artists for DD Day 2025 Commission 2 (of 3) 🎥🎵 ‌ We are so looking forward to what Delia inspires this time! 🤓 ‌ With thanks to support from National Lottery Heritage Fund and @thejohnrylands.bsky.social

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

This is why we do what we do! ‌ We are an organisation for social change inspired by the life and work of electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001). We aim to make the arts and cultural heritage more accessible and representative. 🎶 ‌ Zine 📸 Karen Harte Lampshade💡Coolicon Lighting

“Women* only represent 0.5% of all recorded history” - Sandi Toksvig. *people who identify as women and gender expansive people are included in this statistic

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

@biggive.bsky.social #artsforimpact update: we are halfway thru our #electronicmusic education initiative funded by generous individuals. This small scale yet pioneering study is amplifying the demand & potential of electronic music education for all kids ages 7-11. More info on our website news

White background, orange numbers and black typed words: 10 teachers we have consulted with, 11 schools we have covered in our consultations, 60 children we have carried out creative consultation with

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The John Rylands Library @thejohnrylands.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

The Rylands is home to the Delia Derbyshire Archive. You can see items from the archive on display in the Collections Gallery. Or find out more about the archive here: www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/spec...

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

A dip in the archives 🤓🗄️ ‌ Fancy diving in yourself? The Delia Derbyshire Archive is accessible to the public via the special collections team at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social in Manchester, England📍Check it out! ‌ 🎥Film credit: Belle Vue Productions ‌ #deliaderbyshireday #deliaderbyshire

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

🎙️Touching base/bass: who we are & what we do in a nutshell...electronic music charity for social change 🎛️ Check our website & YouTube channel 🔊 spread the word & donate 🎛️ 📸 kids making film ‘Doctor Who at 60: the origin story’ 2023 w/ Belle Vue Productions, supported by Heritage Fund lottery players

BTS kids film ‘Doctor Who at 60: the origin story’ with Belle Vue Productions on camera, mic, lights; dozen children standing in a group ready to film a scene; 1 child in foreground with fake moustache looks round

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Delia Derbyshire Day @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Wordcloud reveal 💭 ‌ When you think of Delia Derbyshire…Thank you for sharing thoughts⚡Delia consistently inspires! ‌ #deliaderbyshireday #deliaderbyshire #wordcloud #brainstorm

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