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From parish council to The Style Council, the inside story of the festival's second decade.

An abridged version of the official inside story of 50 years of the world’s 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.

In the 1980s, Michael Eavis was living proof that there was such a thing as society...

Introduced by Lauren Laverne
Michael Eavis ..... Oliver Ford Davies
Emily Eavis ….. Louise Brealey
John Cooper Clarke ..... Jamael Westman

Abridged by Sara Davies
Produced by Jessica Dromgoole