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MUSIC FESTIVALS
The Three Choirs festival at the cathedrals of Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester is regarded as one of the oldest in Europe, already well established in the early 1700s. Folk and Jazz festivals proliferated in the post war years and pop festivals have also gone from strength to strength.

From Glastonbury to Glyndebourne, the range of music to be found in festivals across the country has never been greater, with classical, jazz, rock, folk and world music jostling for enthusiasts’ attention across the summer. And it’s not just this country, music festivals now happen all over the world, and the more remote the location the more attractive it is to the serious festival goer.

Sandi Toksvig is joined by four aficionados whose quests for festival music have taken them around the world as well as closer to home; Alex Poots, director and commissioner of the Manchester International Festival; Elinor Goodman, political journalist best known to Radio 4 audiences as a presenter of the Week in Westminster; Nick Maes, travel writer who has recently returned from his first festival in Essaouira in Morocco; Simon Broughton, contributor to the Rough Guide to World Music and editor of the magazine Songlines, also dedicated to world music.