I was very pleased to have met many of the people mentioned in the broadcast and I have no doubt they influenced my own appreciation of how society worked and how it could be improved. And it wasn't just in Oz; Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Cecil Sharp were all tarred with a similar brush.

Back to the thread and the broadcast; they also influenced my participation in the folk scene both as a transmitter and interpreter. Some of you may be interested to know that Keith McKenry was the person, in the broadcast, who was compiling histories by trawling through ASIO's files. Before he retired he was an Assistant Commissioner in the Taxation Office but is well known in the Oz folk scene as a poet and a publisher; "Fanged Wombat Publications" is his baby.

Cheers, Rowan