Wasn't it Hamish Henderson who sad that before one can be international one must first be national? However, WAV, that's a very different thing to the sort of ethnically cleansed Nationalism you're always banging on about.

Of late I've been thinking of myself more in terms of being British than English, which cuturally I am of course (as an Irish-Northumbrian-Jewish-expat-Geordie), but I'm beginning to find all this devolution stuff a tad worrying for the well-being of the (mainland) nation as a whole.

BTW, did anyone hear Musical Migrants on Radio 4 yesterday afternoon about Martin Green from Lau? Interesting in relation to this, and other WAV-type threads.

And yes, Ruth, I suppose specialist just about covers it, but my favourite was always Frances de la Tour who played the gorgeous Ruth Jones in Rising Damp!