DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED: GLASTONBURY MUSIC MAKERS 2023 - EMILY EAVIS (320kbs-m4a/97mb/42mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 18th June 2023
Emily Eavis is co-organiser of the Glastonbury Festival. Together with her husband and her father, she masterminds the booking of bands and oversees the setting up of what is the largest greenfield festival in the world. The site itself becomes the size of Oxford town centre once it's built and rigged.
Born in 1979, she was a small child when her parents, Jean and Michael, were inspired to make the Glastonbury Festival an annual event, although she wasn't keen on the yearly invasion of the family farm. By her late teens, however, she had changed her views. She left Worthy Farm to study to be a teacher at Goldsmiths College in London but when, at the end of her first year, her mother was diagnosed with cancer, Emily left and went home to help look after her and to help her father run that year's festival.
Emily never went back to university. Motivated by a visit to Haiti to look at Oxfam projects, she spent a few years in London putting on charity gigs, before returning home to work with her father running the festival. She married her husband, Nick Dewey, manager of The Chemical Brothers in 2009. The couple have three children and live on Worthy Farm.
Presented by Lauren Laverne.
BOOK CHOICE: The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski
LUXURY CHOICE: Carpenter's tool set (so she can build her own veranda)
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go - Bob Dylan
Producer: Cathy Drysdale
Desert Island Discs was created by Roy Plomley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2019.
Van Morrison - Madame George
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Bob Marley - High Tide Or Low Tide
Fleetwood Mac - Landslide (Live at Warner Brothers Studios)
Frank Sinatra - That's Life
Guy Garvey & Peter Jobson - Winterlude
Beyoncé - Crazy In Love
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