This was fascinating (Czech sword dancing) particularly as I learnt some of it at a dance workshop near Prague in Dec '99 with the Bonus family who do workshops in trad Czech & Slovakian dancing every year at this time (well worth going to!), look up the 'Dvorana' website. What we did could well have been from the place mentioned in the documentary, the name Podlak seems to ring a bell - it struck me at the time how similar to English longsword dancing it seemed & thought there may also have been a colliery connection, but I now don't think this to be the case after seeing last night's prog.

Let's hope we get more & more & more of this quality of TV, makes sat TV subs all worthwhile.