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Thread #98198   Message #1942238
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
20-Jan-07 - 01:51 AM
Thread Name: BBC4 tonight Folk Hibernia [19 Jan 07]
Subject: RE: BBC4 tonight Folk Hibernia
I really struggled to watch the last ten minutes which were indeed dire. Apart from a brief earlier lapse into Clannad, FH was a surprisingly good and accurate chronology of how it was (though achieving it without a mention of Paul Brady was something of a feat). Fine archive footage of Luke Kelly and Johnny Moynihan as well as the usual suspects, and wasn't it marvellous to see THAT bouzouki again? Yes, there were omissions but it would have been a case of 'get who you can' and Anne Briggs as a talking head made up for much that wasn't shown because it just wasn't filmed.