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Something Old, Something New: Public Service Broadcasting On History And Storytelling

J. Willgoose, Esq. says his band's band's practice of repurposing historical films and broadcasts is less an exercise in nostalgia than a way of "reframing the past."
Public Service Broadcasting drew on historical film footage to tell a story of a Welsh mining boom on the new album <em>Every Valley</em>.

Though known first and foremost as a band, is as much a historical project as it is a musical one. Founded by J. Willgoose, Esq., the English trio uses archival material, whether it be film footage or radio broadcasts, to write new songs around. "We can try and tell the stories from the past with new

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