Just read all this again - and I've just read such shite that I can't believe

"Let's be a bit simplistic and create a generic dissenter who we'll call Moz." Not sure if this is a pop at me,eh !

"If the artists who Moz thinks should be getting the breaks which our BBC4 singers are getting DID get those breaks - would they be as successful in that marketplace in this era as the BBC4s? We don't know." I have no axe to grind towards any particular artists - or trying to boost any artists.My point is......overall the recording of the singing was,generally,crap - whose fault ? Singers or engineers ? Dunno. All that I do know is....I ain't suddenly become deaf/hard of hearing (i'll let you know !) and I heard what I heard.

"Could it be that the BBC4s are in fact somehow 'right' for this arena, in ways that other singers are not - and that they are vocalising some 21st century folk zeitgeist that Moz is just not attuned to?" WHAT ??? Google translator,please !

"I don't know, but I do love to find beauty in unexpected places, and I find it easily in the voices we heard on this programme.

Maybe they're not actually bad - just different." Gotta agree to disagree.They sounded sub-standard for fully professional performers.

Summary - if BEEB anyChannel display this next Xmas 2011,we will all know that they have lost their marbles towards song/sound,whatever the genre (or they have lost their budget).Christ knows what George Melly would have said if he'd heard Jazz portrayed like this programme portrayed Folk music.I love folk music and song....and this programme mad me feel like......well......I couldn't recommend ANY of my non-folkie friends to watch it 'cos then they really would know that I was a conker......that they would think that this was my idea of musical entertainment....and it's NOT !!! for whatever reasons are to blame !
(Yeh - an' I remember Mr Sachs,when I were a lad,in his effusively,ebulliently,engaging extollations of performers beyond perfection whose mesmerising manifestations of magical mannerisms and machinations would mystify any audience,by way of song or style,with their use of words of alliterative affectations....bla,bla,bla)