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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
GLASTONBURY 50 BY EMILY EAVIS AND MICHAEL EAVIS (320kbs-m4a/177mb/1hr18mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 17th to 19th June 2020
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.
Introduced by Lauren Laverne, each episode selects memories from one
decade, read by Oliver Ford Davies, Louise Brealey, Gemma Whelan and
Jamael Westman.
Abridged by Sara Davies
Produced by Jessica Dromgoole
GLASTONBURY 50 BY EMILY EAVIS AND MICHAEL EAVIS - 1. IMPRESSIONS OF THE 70s (320kbs-m4a/35mb/15mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 17th June 2020
From Marc Bolan to Peter Gabriel - the inside story of Glastonbury Festival's first decade.
Michael Eavis ..... Oliver Ford Davies
Thomas H Green ..... Jamael Westman
GLASTONBURY 50 BY EMILY EAVIS AND MICHAEL EAVIS - 2. IMPRESSIONS OF THE 80s (320kbs-m4a/35mb/15mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 18th June 2020
From parish council to The Style Council, the inside story of the festival's second decade.
In the 1980s, Michael Eavis was living proof that there was such a thing as society...
Michael Eavis ..... Oliver Ford Davies
Emily Eavis ….. Louise Brealey
John Cooper Clarke ..... Jamael Westman
GLASTONBURY 50 BY EMILY EAVIS AND MICHAEL EAVIS - 3. IMPRESSIONS OF THE 90s (320kbs-m4a/36mb/16mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 19th June 2020
From Radiohead to Pulp - the inside story of the festival's third decade.
The 1990s - in the wild West.
Michael Eavis ..... Oliver Ford Davies
Emily Eavis ..... Louise Brealey
Jarvis Cocker ..... Jamael Westman
Caitlin Moran ..... Gemma Whelan
GLASTONBURY 50 BY EMILY EAVIS AND MICHAEL EAVIS - 4. IMPRESSIONS OF THE 2000s (320kbs-m4a/36mb/16mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 19th June 2020
From James Brown to Jay-Z - Glastonbury Festival's fourth decade. Feuds, fellowship and fences.
Michael Eavis ..... Oliver Ford Davies
Emily Eavis ..... Louise Brealey
GLASTONBURY 50 BY EMILY EAVIS AND MICHAEL EAVIS - 5. IMPRESSIONS OF THE 2010s (320kbs-m4a/36mb/16mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 19th June 2020
From storms to Stormzy - the inside story of Glastonbury Festival's fifth decade.
Michael Eavis ..... Oliver Ford Davies
Emily Eavis ..... Louise Brealey
Daisy Jones ..... Gemma Whelan
THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 5 - 7. EMILY EAVIS (320kbs-m4a/129mb/56mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 8th January 2018
Emily Eavis discusses the moments and songs that have shaped her life and career with Matt Everitt.
Emily is co-organiser of the Glastonbury Festival and is the youngest daughter of the festival's founder and organiser Michael Eavis.
Emily chats to Matt about her life growing up in the Glastonbury family, the music that inspired her, and shares her memories of the festival through the years.
First broadcast in 2013.
T. Rex - Ride A White Swan [Telstar]
Primal Scream - Come Together [Creation]
BBC - Cow Noise 1
Bob Dylan - Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)
Hothouse Flowers - Don't Go [Polygram TV]
Lenny Kravitz - It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over [EMI]
The Smiths - William, It Was Really Nothing [WEA]
Van Morrison - Don't Look Back
Pulp - Common People (Live At Glastonbury 1995)
Elbow - One Day Like This (Live At Glastonbury 2011)
R.E.M. - The One I Love (Live At Glastonbury 1999) [IRS]
Jay-Z - Wonderwall (Live At Glastonbury 2008) [Session]
David Bowie - 'Heroes' [EMI]
