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Inform - Educate - Entertain is the first album by alternative British group Public Service Broadcasting. It features samples from the British Film Institute (BFI) and The National Archives (UK) and features themes from the first expedition of Mount Everest, the invention of colour television, road safety, fashion, the creation of the Spitfire plane and Thomas Woodrooffe's 1937 radio broadcast at the Spithead Review.[1] It peaked at No. 21 on the UK Albums Chart.

Inform - Educate - Entertain
Studio album by
Public Service Broadcasting
Released6 May 2013
Genre
  • Alternative rock
  • indie rock
  • art rock
  • krautrock
  • dance-punk
  • electronica
LabelTest Card Recordings
Public Service Broadcasting chronology
The War Room
(2012)		 Inform - Educate - Entertain
(2013)		 The Race for Space
(2015)
Singles from Inform-Educate-Entertain
  1. "Spitfire"
  2. "Everest"
  3. "Signal 30"
  4. "Theme from PSB"
  5. "Night Mail"

The album title is a reference to the original directive of the British Broadcasting Corporation.


Track listing


All tracks are written by J. Willgoose, Esq..

No.TitleSubject of samplesLength
1."Inform - Educate - Entertain"Snippets from other tracks on the album4:12
2."Spitfire"The 1942 film The First of the Few (about the Supermarine Spitfire aircraft)3:58
3."Theme from PSB"Marie Slocombe speaking about the BBC Sound Archive in 19423:59
4."Signal 30"The 1959 road safety film Signal 303:20
5."Night Mail"The 1936 documentary Night Mail3:50
6."Qomolangma"None (instrumental)1:51
7."ROYGBIV"The invention of colour television3:57
8."The Now Generation"Fashion3:42
9."Lit Up"Thomas Woodrooffe's drunken radio broadcast from HMS Nelson at the Spithead Review4:54
10."Everest"The 1953 British Mount Everest expedition3:47
11."Late Night Final"The 1948 short film What a Life!,[1] and a sample from the Talking Heads episode A Lady of Letters5:52
Total length:43:22

Personnel


Musicians[2]

Production[2]


Charts


Chart (2013) Peak
position
UK Albums (OCC)[3] 21

Certifications


Region CertificationCertified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[4] Silver 60,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.


References


  1. Petridis, Alexis (2 May 2013). "Public Service Broadcasting: Inform-Educate-Entertain – review". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 24 February 2016.
  2. Public Service Broadcasting - Inform - Educate - Entertain, retrieved 12 September 2022
  3. "Public Service Broadcasting | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  4. "British album certifications – Public Service Broadcasting – Inform-Educate-Entertain". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 16 June 2018.

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Inform - Educate - Entertain è il primo album del gruppo musicale britannico Public Service Broadcasting. L'album comprende brani tratti dagli archivi del British Film Institute (BFI) e degli Archivi nazionali sulla prima spedizione al Monte Everest, sull'invenzione della televisione a colori, sulla sicurezza stradale, sulla moda, sulla creazione del Supermarine Spitfire e sulla trasmissione radio del 1937 di Thomas Woodrooffe alla Spithead Review.[1] L'album ha raggiunto la posizione No. 21 sull'UK Albums Chart.


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