Inform-Educate-Entertain

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
Released	6 May 2013
Genre	Alternative rock indie rock art rock krautrock dance-punk electronica
Label	Test Card Recordings
Public Service Broadcasting chronology
The War Room (2012) Inform - Educate - Entertain (2013) The Race for Space (2015)
Singles from Inform-Educate-Entertain
"Spitfire" "Everest" "Signal 30" "Theme from PSB" "Night Mail"

Track listing

No.	Title	Subject of samples	Length
1.	"Inform - Educate - Entertain"	Snippets from other tracks on the album	4:12
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 1942	3:59
4.	"Signal 30"	The 1959 road safety film Signal 30	3:20
5.	"Night Mail"	The 1936 documentary Night Mail	3:50
6.	"Qomolangma"	None (instrumental)	1:51
7.	"ROYGBIV"	The invention of colour television	3:57
8.	"The Now Generation"	Fashion	3:42
9.	"Lit Up"	Thomas Woodrooffe's drunken radio broadcast from HMS Nelson at the Spithead Review	4:54
10.	"Everest"	The 1953 British Mount Everest expedition	3:47
11.	"Late Night Final"	The 1948 short film What a Life!,[1] and a sample from the Talking Heads episode A Lady of Letters	5:52
Total length:			43:22

Charts

Chart (2013)	Peak position
UK Albums (OCC)[2]	21

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[3]	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 | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
3. "British album certifications – Public Service Broadcasting – Inform-Educate-Entertain". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 16 June 2018. Select albums in the Format field. Select Silver in the Certification field. Type Inform-Educate-Entertain in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.