The Festival Time Forgot

FROM THE PYTHIAN GAMES 586BC TO WEELEY FESTIVAL 1971 

Glastonbury Festival attracts more than 200,000 each year to the small town in Somerset and millions of people attend the many dozens of music festivals around the UK each year.

How did these festivals originate? How did they develop? And why is it that one of the biggest festivals held in the country back in 1971 is largely forgotten?

With a slide show and musical extracts, musician Martyn Dormer and writer Matthew Zuckerman trace the origins of the music festival from the Pythian Games in 582 BC up to the explosion of the giant pop festivals in the late 1960s and early 1970s, exploring the curious origins and surprises that resulted in the Weeley Festival – the Festival time forgot.