Last saturday morning a small child retuned my freeview box for me as I am too incompetent to do it myself, and so I watched part two later that day. Gregg's point raised umpteen posts ago where he quotes the great Henry Ayrtons view of folk as 'parallel universes'makes the most sense to me. It was great to see a bit of Northumbrian piping in there, which was quickly followed by a bit of Nick Drake, neither music had bugger all to do with the other except that the BBC has classified them both as folk. A HUGE subject methinks.
Ps: I too think Donovan is under-rated, and although he is a bit of a johnny-come-lately' I would rather people sang Billy Bragg songs instead of some American bloke called Dylan.