I just got to hear this Twenty Minutes by setting the new rubbishy iPlayer to 'Dial-up Modem Version:ON'. First time I've got a peep out of it since the MacUser-unfriendly changeover.

It was indeed illuminating to hear Nancy Kerr talking about the relevance of Bushes & Briars to her personally (actually she sounded quite Australian in this interview) and to be reminded of the duo with Eliza Carthy when they were 17. Startling too to hear Malcolm Taylor reveal how the first wax cylinder he lifted out of the box at C# House came apart in his hands.

I am reminded of a R3 programme some years ago also entitled, I think, Bushes & Briars, about the work of Vivienne Ellis and Giles Lewin who actually come from Essex. Their interpretations of the songs collected there are amazingly beautiful and it was something of an omission not to have included them.