If CJB is still annoyed about the lack of English singers on the TS then get in touch with the BBC, but don't play the racist card, it is neither needed or required here.

But rather than just writing to the BBC saying 'No English folk in the TS, it's not fair, racist, boo hoo', someone should perhaps get a programme proposal together to take to the BBC, complete with well-known names from the English scene signed up to participate.

I suspect a decent well-thought-out proposal, backed by some English folk music names familiar outside the immediate folk circuit (and yes I probably do mean the likes of the Radio 2 audience), would actually be pushing at a half-open door at the moment, with the rise of the EFDSS, the recent Unthanks programmes about traditions, the Folk Awards, the new impetus and commitment to the Radio 2 programme given by the replacement of MH by MR, etc. etc.

Have the Carthys and Bodens and Morays and Knightleys and Rusbys and Cuttings etc. involved, partly to get the programme commissioned but also to get the casual viewer to tune in - but with those names on board the opportunity would then be there to bring in new faces, unfamiliar performers and acts, new rising names, alongside the established performers. Which, incidentally, is one thing that the TS do every season.

Of course if the programmes did actually get screened they would get completely ripped to shreds on Mudcat for involving 'The Same Old Names' rather than Fred Fanakapan who plays a mean set of Ralph McTell cover versions to 3 people in the back room of the Curmudgeon & Ostrich every Thursday night in Penge, but there you go.