To Sian, West Wales: I've been to Cwmystwyth to interview Mered and Phyllis - a very friendly, genuine couple who will go out of their way to to make you welcome. Their fount of music and folk knowledge is inestimable. The leading Welsh company Sain put together a double-CD of Mered's work, including recordings which go back to 1962 and his eponymous 1970s album Mered. He combined his love of folk singing with his job of Head of BBC Light Entertainments (the now-retired Mered had been a professor at Princeton University, where the New York Times had his Folkways LP in the Top Ten.) To me, Cwmystwyth is at the centre of Great Britain.

Or could it be Ynys Mon, the lovely island of Anglesey, home to a countless line of triple-harpers, including Llio Rhydderch?