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BBC spent £1.7million on Glastonbury

If you thought ticket prices for Glastonbury were edging on the extortionate, just thank your lucky stars that you're not the BBC. Who spent £1.7million when covering the event last year.

The figures have come about after the National Audit Office looked into how much the corporation spent at various sporting and music events.

So where did the money go? Here's a breakdown of the figures:

Talent and other staff - £271,000
Broadcast infrastructure and studios - £961,000

Travel and accommodation - £282,000

Misc - £223,000

Total - £1,737,000

The BBC took 277 staff to Glastonbury, paying them an average of £978 each. Overall, the staff taken cost £90,000 per day and the overall cost of the coverage came in at £17,724 for every hour the festival was broadcast.

So the, what could you get at Glastonbury for the money?

- an additional 5,100 minutes out of a headline act: last year the festival was fined £3,000 after Bruce Springsteen ran nine minutes over - working out at £333 per minute.

- 7.6 miles of super-fence - which cost £1million for 4.5 miles back in 2002.

- confirm the Rolling Stones for this year's festival - rumours in 2007 suggested the Stones demanded £1million to play.

- 485,714 pints of Brothers Cider

If you weren't there, and were sitting on your sofa, here's what you'd have seen: