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The official inside story of Glastonbury Festival, by Michael and Emily Eavis, introduced by Lauren Laverne.

From Marc Bolan to Peter Gabriel - the inside story of Glastonbury Festival's first decade.

An abridged version of the official inside story of 50 years of the world鈥檚 most iconic, most loved music festival, mixing testimony from its founder, Methodist-raised music-loving dairy-farmer, Michael Eavis, his daughter Emily, world-renowned artists and journalists.

Five decades of music, love, peace, drugs, and the rain, from a field of 500 people paying a pound a ticket in 1970, to today's Greatest Show on Earth, attended by 203,500, and with a global reach of twenty million, this is a glorious selection of first-hand accounts to tie in with Virtual Glastonbury.

Introduced by Lauren Laverne, each episode selects memories from one decade, read by Oliver Ford Davies, Louise Brealey, Gemma Whelan and Jamael Westman.

Michael Eavis ..... Oliver Ford Davies
Thomas H Green ..... Jamael Westman
Abridged by Sara Davies
Produced by Jessica Dromgoole
Introduced by Lauren Laverne
Michael Eavis ..... Oliver Ford Davies
Thomas H Green ..... Jamael Westman

Abridged by Sara Davies
Produced by Jessica Dromgoole

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