Entertainers and their audience: a two-way relationship

Returning from a five day stay in the embrace of Glastonbury 2017 is perhaps an odd time to write a blog about television. Indeed, apart from the 500 hardy souls packing out the Theatre Bar to watch the British Lions test match at 8.30am on Saturday morning, I don’t think a frame of television would have been watched by the 200,000 residents of Worthy Farm.
But something struck me as an audience member more viscerally than ever before. It was both the symbiotic nature of the relationship b