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With Glastonbury being arguably the most legendary festival around, an event of this scale requires suitable and regular media coverage to ensure that everyone who’s unable to attend doesn’t miss out on any of the magic and unique experience that is the Glastonbury Festival. For as long as most can remember there has been no more perfect a broadcaster partner to fill this role than the BBC, and the 2004 broadcast schedule, detailing all of the ways in which you can catch your favourite acts from this years festival, shows you why:

The BBC have it covered on all angles. Aside from the image and article delights of this oh-so-fantastic official festival website itself, if you didn’t manage to get tickets this year, fret not: more news, features, performer profiles, competitions and photos are just a click away at the BBC’s dedicated Glastonbury 2004 website. www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury

This year Radio 1’s daytime duo Colin and Edith are at the forefront of the BBC’s coverage of Glastonbury 2004 and you can be sure that they’ll bring at least some of the wacky humour, funny irrelevance and serious music pundit views and opinions to your TV set and airwaves as the festival coverage begins on Monday June 14th and ends on Monday June 28th, with the Festival going interactive for the very first time on BBC Two and BBC Three. Sit back, tune in and enjoy!

On television:

For full coverage of each of Glastonbury’s 900 acres, BBC Three gets into the party spirit with Glastonbury Calling, a fortnight of programmes in the run-up to the Festival (14-24 June), while BBC Two features more unmissable performances and special guests, and ventures into the Festival’s most weird and wonderful corners.

(Services offering news and schedule information to music fans on the move will be available on WAP and PDA also).

Glastonbury Calling
Monday June 14th - Thursday June 24th, 8pm-8.30pm, BBC THREE
Glastonbury Calling begins tonight, broadcasted live from London with Colin and Edith and continuing up until the festival itself. Colin and Edith decamp to the festival site to broadcast live from a specially built BBC 3 studio. Expect exclusive performances from the likes of Starsailor, Elbow, The Ordinary Boys, The Bees and Goldie Lookin' Chain. Across nine shows Glastonbury Calling will revisit iconic performances from past festivals and it looks set to become THE show to really get you into the festival spirit!

Glastonbury - Main Festival Coverage
Friday June 25th, 11.35pm-2.00am, BBC TWO
John Peel, Jo Whiley, Phill Jupitus, Mark Radcliffe and Lauren Laverne head up BBC Two’s main coverage of the actual festival itself. Viewers can join festival goers and see the footage of headliners Oasis, PJ Harvey, Snow Patrol, Jet and a raft of other talented bands perform on Glastonbury’s famous stages. The coverage also includes acoustic performances, special guests and visits to some of the weird, wonderful and far-flung depths of the Glastonbury Festival.

Glastonbury Extended Coverage
Friday June 25th, 7.00pm-2.00am, BBC THREE
Those who still can’t bear to miss a minute of the main festival action can watch the extensive and comprehensive coverage provided this year courtesy of BBC Three. With broadcasts from the Pyramid Stage, the Other Stage and the New Tent, Colin and Edith will be grabbing all the bands and getting them to do exclusive versions of their songs in the intimate studio setting.

AND, for the first time, Glastonbury goes interactive each night of the festival, from 10pm. Digital viewers can press the red button on their TV remote to get even more coverage of the big acts, as BBC Three dips in and out of the festival with EastEnders and other evening programmes.

Glastonbury - Main Festival Coverage
Saturday June 26th, 3pm-4pm and 11.30pm-2am, BBC TWO
The coverage of the Glastonbury continues on BBC 2 hosted by John Peel, Jo Whiley, Vernon Kaye, Lauren Laverne, Phil Jupitus and Mark Radcliffe. Performances from Paul McCartney, Black Eyed Peas, Basement Jaxx, Keane, Scissor Sisters, Zero 7 and many others.

Glastonbury Extended Coverage
Saturday June 26th, 7pm-2am, BBC THREE
Hosted by Colin Murray and Edith Bowman, music comes from Starsailor, Von Bondies, Jamie Cullum, The Killers, Hope of the States and Keane.

Glastonbury - Main Festival Coverage
Sunday June 27th, 7pm-8pm and 11.15pm-2am, BBC TWO
As the festival draws to a close there's performances here from Muse, James Brown, Morrisey, Orbital, Roy Ayers, Bonnie Rait and many others.

Glastonbury Extended Coverage
Sunday June 27th, 7pm-2am, BBC THREE
Hosted by Colin Murray and Edith Bowman music tonight from Muse, The Libertines, The Delays, Morrisey and more.

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