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".
[4] After the workshop shut down, Parker set up her own studio and began working as a freelance composer.
[4] During her time at the Radiophonic Workshop, Parker worked on hundreds of BBC productions for both television and radio.
[2] These productions included: Parker also arranged Gabriel Fauré's short work Pavane for choir, which the BBC used as their theme tune for the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
[6] Parker continued to work on various television productions as a freelance composer.