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I've only seen the first half of the prog so far, but found it very interesting as I know one or two of the people involved.

The health and safety aspect isn't really EH's fault, as that's the way it is for all gatherings and festies now, but they did come across as overly officious.

EH's biggest fear is being seen as the organisation that allows the festival to re-establish itself... they are terrified of that. Hence their refusal to open Stonehenge for two days over the 21st/22nd. They are scared stiff of people camping overnight and all the critisism they'd receive.

I don't see the harm in opening Stonehenge for two days myself. The place earns more than enough throughout the rest of the year to accomodate such a thing. NT came out of it looking quite mellow really!

I thought the film itself was quite fair handed, but made a bit much of the supposed protest to introduce a bit of drama. That was only down to one person and it wasn't anything to do with Brian.... Brian actually tried to dissuade the person responsible for that.

I thought the best bit was seeing Clewes Everard of EH and Jeremy Wickham of Wiltshire Police holding hands and singing a peace song!!

>I thought the best bit was seeing Clewes Everard of EH and Jeremy Wickham of Wiltshire Police holding hands and singing a peace song!!<

Hah! Yes that was funny!

As for EH not wanting the festival to re-establish, that did seem to be their major fear, and yet they made no attempt to explain why, which I thought rather incongrous. It was a thread that ran through the entire program and yet they didn't give any explanation for their fear at all. It seemed to be a fear of almost superstitious strength and coloured almost everything that EH and the police did.

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P.S. Who do you know that was on the prog? There were some interesting peeps on there! If I wasn't already spoken for I'd be busy falling in love with the witchy woman who lit the candle thingie!