Woman's Hour Live from Glastonbury!
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
For Woman's Hour's first ever live broadcast from Worthy Farm Anita is joined by BBC 6 Music's Jamz Supernova. Jamz gives Anita her top tips and talks us through the women she's most excited to see perform this year.
Emily Eavis has been co-organising Glastonbury since 1999, working alongside her father and founder of the festival, Michael Eavis. Over the years, she's booked some of the biggest names in music, from Beyonce and Adele to the Rolling Stones. Emily has been committed to making the festival more sustainable, banning single-use plastics in 2019 and she's been vocal about improving gender equality within the live music industry. So how does she feel about this year’s line-up of all-male headliners?
Four time Grammy nominee and folk legend Allison Russell joins Anita live for a very special performance. Alongside being a singer and songwriter Allison is a poet, an activist and a multi-instrumentalist. Fresh from performing alongside the one and only Joni Mitchell earlier this month she is at Glastonbury, performing on The Acoustic Stage.
There are no female headliners at Glasto this year, what does this mean for women in the music industry? Anita is joined by a top panel including Vick Bain who has been in the business for over 25 years and founded The F List – a directory of female musicians, the Welsh songwriter and producer The Anchoress and 6 Music DJ and founder of Future Bounce record label Jamz Supernova.
Rebecca, Diana and Kristine invited Anita to their camp site. The three friends, who are festival lovers and Woman’s Hour listeners, share their Glasto memories and tell us why it’s such a magical place.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Emma Pearce
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.4 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello from Worthy Farm for the first time in the history of Woman's Hour. |
| 0:14.7 | We are live at Glastonbury, where some might not shower for days, others may peek too |
| 0:20.3 | soon, I've already spotted a few casualties and some may lose their friends but it's okay |
| 0:24.1 | because they'll find new ones, it's a very friendly place. |
| 0:27.1 | Michael Evis first opened up his farm for a festival in 1970 and 53 years and 38 festivals |
| 0:33.3 | later. |
| 0:34.3 | Here we are. |
| 0:35.3 | Just to give you an overview of the size and scale of this mecha for music lovers, the |
| 0:39.2 | site is over a thousand acres which is the equivalent of about 500 football pitches. |
| 0:44.3 | The fence around the festival site is eight miles long, getting from one place to another |
| 0:48.7 | certainly up to your step counts. |
| 0:50.5 | There are over 100 bars, more than 500 food stalls, 400 toilet cubicles very important, |
| 0:55.8 | and 40,000 bins. |
| 0:58.5 | But what about the music? |
| 0:59.5 | Well, here's a flavour of some of the women you can expect to hear from over the next |
| 1:03.4 | few days. |
| 1:04.4 | That was of course Lizzo, Blondie and Candy Staten but none of them will be headlining |
| 1:09.0 | this year's festival because it's only men. |
| 1:12.0 | We're going to ask the festival's organizer Emily Evis why this is. |
| 1:16.1 | Also on the programme, we'll have an exclusive live performance. |
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