Emily Eavis

Desert Island Discs

BBC

Society & Culture, Music Commentary, Music, Personal Journals

4.4 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

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, and when tickets for 2019 went on sale, they sold out within 36 minutes. 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. BOOK CHOICE: The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski LUXURY: Carpenter’s tool set (so she can build her own veranda) CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go by Bob Dylan Presenter: Lauren Laverne Producer: Cathy Drysdale DISC ONE: Madame George - Van Morrison DISC TWO: Paranoid Android - Radiohead DISC THREE: You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go - Bob Dylan DISC FOUR: High Tide Or Low Tide - Bob Marley DISC FIVE: Landslide (Live at Warner Brothers Studios) - Fleetwood Mac DISC SIX: That's Life - Frank Sinatra DISC SEVEN: Winterlude - Guy Garvey & Peter Jobson DISC EIGHT: Crazy In Love – Beyoncé 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 2019.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:05.4	I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Desert Island Discs Podcast.
0:08.9	Every week I ask my guests to choose the 8 tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take
0:13.3	with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
0:16.6	This is an extended version of the original Radio 4 broadcast and for right reasons the
0:21.8	music is shorter than the original broadcast.
0:24.7	I hope you enjoy listening.
0:30.0	Music Music
0:46.4	My cast away this week is the co-organizer of Glastonbury Festival, Emily Evis.
0:51.6	She grew up on worthy farm in Somerset just like the festival itself, which was founded
0:55.8	by her parents Jean and Michael almost half a century ago.
0:59.9	These days Glastonbury is the largest greenfield festival in the world.
1:04.0	Once a year the site itself transforms from an ordinary dairy farm into a settlement
1:08.8	the size of Oxford Town Centre with the infrastructure to match.
1:13.2	She hadn't initially intended to take on the family business, Emily had wanted to be
1:16.9	a primary school teacher but when her mother died in 1999 she gave up her studies and
1:22.0	returned home to help her father and ended up staying on.
1:25.8	On her watch Glastonbury has become a truly global event reaching a broadcast audience
1:30.5	of 21 million and attracting some of the biggest stars on the planet.
1:35.2	Much of the profits still go to charity £3 million in 2017 alone and the iconic pyramid
1:40.9	stage is built around a tree planted by her great great grandfather when he first bought
1:45.6	the land.
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