the Festival will be televised

Glastonbury Festival 2014

Wednesday 25th to Sunday 29th June 2014
Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4AZ, England MAP
£210 (secured with a deposit) - SOLD OUT

Daily capacity: 177,500

The BBC have announced details of their planned coverage of Glastonbury Festival this summer.

The BBC has over the last 14 years been developing and evolving its red button services, in 2013, a record 1.5 million unique browsers accessed the BBC's digital Glastonbury coverage, with over 6m viewers on the BBC's Red Button over the weekend and 42 per cent of total traffic across the weekend coming from mobiles and tablets.

A statement, (here), about a raft of new content and initiatives reveals the BBC will once again be bringing audiences more than 100 acts with coverage across TV, Radio and online starting on Friday 27 June.

Bob Shennan, Controller BBC Radio 2, 6 Music, Asian Network and Director, BBC Music said, "Glastonbury is one of the world's most famous music festivals and once again the BBC will be providing audiences with a magical weekend of coverage, in a way that only the BBC can."

The BBC will broadcast over 250 hours of Radio, TV, Red Button and Online streaming, with coverage from six music stages - Pyramid, Other, John Peel, West Holt, Park and BBC Introducing, and will be broadcasting 30 hours of coverage across BBC One (The One Show), BBC Two, BBC Three and BBC Four.

On BBC One, The One Show will kick-off the BBC's TV coverage of the festival on Friday 27 June (7pm-8pm) with further coverage on BBC Two (10pm-10.30pm and 11pm-2am), BBC Three (7pm-10pm and 11pm-midnight) and BBC Four (8pm-10pm).

BBC Two will be broadcasting highlights across the weekend including performances by the Pyramid Stage headliners Arcade Fire, Metallica and Kasabian.

BBC Three will provide a younger perspective on the festival with performances from acts including Rudimental, Ed Sheeran, Lily Allen, Haim and Sam Smith.

Across the weekend, BBC Four will also show performance highlights from some of the classic acts performing at the festival.

This year, the BBC will be broadcasting over 50 hours of coverage across BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1Xtra, BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music - with some shows coming live from the festival.

Backstage in the BBC compound, the BBC Music Tepee will see artists perform special sets for the audience at home.

BBC iPlayer will bring audiences performance highlights from over 100 artists for 30 days after the event, as well as all the action from BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three and BBC Four. On TV, additional Red Button streams will offer more content and highlights from the festival, and the BBC's Connected Red Button service. This year's offering of live streams from the major stages is sure to result in even higher figures this June.

Tickets have sold out for this year's Festival which happens over five full days from Wednesday 25th until Sunday 29th June 2014 across over a 1,000 acres of beautiful countryside at Worthy Farm, Somerset .

This year's festival is headlined by Arcade Fire, Metallica, and Kasabian, plus over the long weekend acts appearing include Dolly Parton, Jack White, Elbow, The Black Keys, Robert Plant, Lily Allen, Ed Sheeran, Lana Del Rey, Rudimental, De La Soul, Kelis, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, The 1975, Angel Haze, Toumani & Sidiki Diabate, The War on Drugs, Nitin Sawhney, Nick Mulvey, Caro Emerald, Turtle Island, English National Ballet, Skrillex, Jake Bugg, and Massive Attack, Paolo Nutini, Pixies, Manic Street Preachers, Interpol, Ellie Goulding, HAIM, Bombay Bicycle Club, Foster the People, Imagine Dragons, Blondie, White Lies, Kodaline, Warpaint, The Horrors, John Newman, Midlake, Sam Smith, M.I.A., Bryan Ferry, Disclosure, Jurassic 5, Goldfrapp, Bonobo, Pretty Lights, Alabama 3, Stanton Warriors, Dub Pistols, Dreadzone, Jon Hopkins, Royal Blood, and many, many more.

To see who is playing where and when see our Glastonbury Festival 2014 line-up page or the pages below:

Pyramid Stage
Other Stage
West Holts Stage
The Park Area
Acoustic Tent
John Peel Stage
Silver Hayes Dance Area
Avalon Field
William's Green
The Glade
Croissant Neuf Stage & Bandstand
Leftfield
Shangri La
The Common Area
Glasto Latino
The Unfairground
Arcadia
Block 9
Beat Hotel
Bella's Field
Babylon Bandstand
Glebeland
Theatre & Circus
Green Futures
Kidz Field
Pilton Palais (film schedule)