Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space

The year is 1957. Paul Anka is Number One, Harold Macmillan has recently set up shop at 10 Downing Street and the mercury is dropping ever lower on the Cold War thermometer. Most importantly, however, a metal ball named Sputnik is hurtled into orbit, launching with it a new human obsession: Space. While never losing its dark mystique, public fascination slowly turned to the greater computing power in their toothbrush than in the tin cans of yesteryear.

Fear not, however, because Captains Wrigglesworth and Willgoose are here to remind you of those interstellar wonders through their sampling mastery. Back to their usual tricks, Public Service Broadcasting have been raiding the British Film Institute’s archives to let you, the lucky listener, come with them on an audible time-warp back to the fifties… and beyond (to circa 1972). Whereas 2013’s ‘Inform, Educate, Entertain’ sampled a scattering of the 20th century’s finest moments with the express intention of letting you know the well-dressed duo’s M.O., ‘The Race for Space’ has a somewhat more specific time and place.