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Public Service Broadcasting / Smoke Fairies – The Ritz, Manchester
It’s ironic that the night we decided to do without the car and took the train to Manchester, my better half and I were let down by public transport. Not so much Public Service Broadcasting as Replacement Bus Service, cheated … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged DEC Appeal, Everest, Gagarin, J Willgoose Esq, Jessica Davies, Katherine Blamire, Manchester, Nepal, Smoke Fairies, Sputnik, The Race for Space, The Ritz, Wild Winter
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The Race for Space by Public Service Broadcasting – a writewyattuk review
It was supposedly a happy accident that Public Service Broadcasting stumbled upon correlations between the sublime Everest on their debut LP and a mention of George Mallory’s historic Peak XV explorations while working on their second. Either way, it was … Continue reading
Posted in Books Films, TV & Radio, Music
Tagged Apollo, Everest, Gagarin, NASA, Public Service Broadcasting, Sputnik, The Race for Space, Valentina Tereshkova, Vostok, Willgoose, Wrigglesworth
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Exploring the gravitational pull of Public Service Broadcasting – a writewyattuk interview
I’m not alone in my fascination for all things space-related, and was captivated as a child by the later Apollo missions, at least one of which I vaguely recall catching on telly at primary school in the early ’70s. And … Continue reading