I'm rather cheekily reposting this from the fRoots forum, because I think it's important...

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As John Crosby put it on Facebook:

Everyone who loved the weekend's folk+dancing TV programmes, should write to or email the BBC telling them so and asking for more. Lots of positive feedback about folk TV strengthens the hand of those producing the programmes. Our collective cultural voice needs to be a little louder in these times of cutbacks because folk / world musics are more in the firing line than Simon Cowell, et al, will ever be.

To send BBC4 encouraging feedback - the more of it they get the more chance there is of seeing more programming like this - there's an easy form to fill in at

www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/yoursay/

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And perhaps I should add, just in case anyone hadn't grasped this from my previous posts, that a lot of negative feedback, such as some of the comments posted above, can weigh in towards the opposite result.

Obviously Mark Thompson doesn't read Mudcat (at least, I'd put a tenner on it) but it's not unknown for suits to browse forums like this one from time to time. It's therefore good if there is at least an element of objectivity and balance in any discussions around BBC shows, (even if the majority view is, by force majeure, negative).

None of the BBC folk-related output can be considered in the least bit safe - specially not radio.

Tom