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Duration: 30 minutes

Over 400 festivals take place in Britain every year, but as Radio 1's Greg James finds out, there is more to them than just a weekend of music and fun. Festivals are big business and serve to illustrate some key business concepts.

Designed for GCSE Business Studies students, the programme goes backstage at a music festival to explain five important concepts: entrepreneurship, sole trading, franchises, companies and profit and loss. The films feature interviews with festival traders and key music industry businesses, from an enterprising tent hire company to the ice-cream franchise dishing out hundreds of cones to sweet-toothed festival goers.

Last on

Thu 19 Apr 2012 05:00 BBC Two except Northern Ireland (Analogue), Wales (Analogue)

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Credits

Presenter
Greg James

Broadcasts

  • Thu 12 Jan 2012 04:00 BBC Two except Northern Ireland (Analogue), Wales (Analogue)

  • Thu 2 Feb 2012 04:30 BBC Two except Northern Ireland (Analogue), Wales (Analogue)

  • Fri 2 Mar 2012 05:00 BBC Two except Northern Ireland (Analogue), Wales (Analogue)

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