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BBC Radio 4 revisits the 1969 and 1970 Isle of Wight Festivals, hearing from those organised the festivals, took part or wrote about them
Ray Foulk is one of the organisers of the original Isle of Wight Festival.
Launched in 1968 and running for three years, the festival came to infamy in 1970 when it was reported that half a million music-lovers descended on the Island – resulting in the introduction of the Isle of Wight Act.
Ray Foulk has published memoirs about the festival in an attempt to debunk some of the rumours surrounding the 1970 festival,
