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Radio 1's Story of the Noughties: 2003

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Last broadcast on Mon, 16 Nov 2009, 01:00 on BBC Radio 1 (see all broadcasts).

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In the fourth of Radio 1's Story of the Noughties, Huw Stephens takes us back to the year 2003 - the music, the people, the events.

2003 was the first time Glastonbury festival sold out within 24 hours of the tickets going on sale, and before the headliners had even been announced. So, taking this as an opportunity to go and meet the most famous farmer in the world, Huw heads off to Worthy Farm to discuss a decade of Glastos with organiser Michael Eavis.

We also hear about three of that year's biggest, and most eccentric, bands. The Libertines had been knocking about for a couple of years, but it was in 2003 that they rose to public attention for all the wrong reasons when Pete Doherty hit the headlines after various run-ins with the police. The White Stripes crossed into the mainstream with their album Elephant. And do you remember how we all went crazy for spandex and hair-metal? Ex-Darkness Frankie Poullain dishes the dirt on how it all went from very right to very wrong for the band.

In the year that MySpace launched, Friendly Fires, Basement Jaxx and Jack Penate look back at the social networking phenomenon. David Mitchell and Robert Webb tell us why Peep Show became a cult hit after its first showing in 2003, and Huw chats to those crazy Dirty Sanchez boys about why we all fell for tv shows featuring men setting their bits on fire.

And FINALLY Dizzee Rascal tells us why grime was THE sound of 2003.

Packed full of music, but featuring the following main tracks from 2003...

Hey Ya - Outkast
I Luv U - Dizzee Rascal
I Believe in a Thing Called Love - The Darkness
Crazy in Love - Beyonce
Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes (live at One Big Weekend 2003)
Don't Look Back into the Sun - The Libertines