Music Weekly podcast: Glastonbury 2011 – day two

When Billy Bragg first came to Glastonbury in 1984, he tells Rosie Swash, it was a CND festival, full of anti-Thatcher protesters. With a new crowd, and a Conservative prime minister in power once again, he explains why the Leftfield stage is more important than ever, as the idea of political activism comes into focus for a new generation.Guy Garvey, meanwhile, is full of nerves ahead of Elbow's performance this evening. Glastonbury, he says, is still the best party on Earth and playing on the P...

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