GREAT EVENTS
Capturing that Glasto magic on screen
LIVE EVENT
WINNER BBC Studios
GLASTONBURY 2019 BBC
Even though last year’s, and now sadly this year’s, Glastonburys were cancelled that hasn’t lessened the sweetness of the 2019 run, which was, in many ways, the culmination of the growth of both the festival itself and the BBC’s coverage of it, says exec producer Alison Howe
“People are still winning awards for the work they did on that festival, our director of the Pyramid Stage won a BAFTA for her work on the Stormzy set so we are constantly reminded what a great event it was for all of us,” says BBC Studios exec producer, Alison Howe on her team’s coverage of the 2019 Glastonbury Festival, the winner of the Televisual Bulldog Best Live Event award. And that comes into stark relief with the pandemic causing the cancellation of both the 2020 Glastonbury Festival and now unfortunately, 2021 too.
Howe says, that in many ways, 2019 was the culmination of the development of both the festival itself and the BBC’s coverage of it.
“The festival and the BBC coverage have grown together. When BBC television started covering it in ‘97, it was still in its infancy as a festival and the coverage has been allowed to grow with it. And probably 2019 was the culmination of that - in terms of individual performances – Stormzy, Kylie, The Killers, The Cure – and all those sets being broadcast live to air on BBC television and doing the numbers they did, and getting the take up and interest that they did. That felt like a culmination of something really important.”
And Howe has watched that whole process. “I’ve been a part of the BBC team at Glastonbury since the mid 90s, I used to work in radio and went across to TV towards the back end of the 90s.
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