As a teenager, an aunt obviously asked my parents what I would like for Christmas. "Folk songs" must have been the reply.

I ended up with two Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten EPs, probably very good but not at all what I wanted in the mid 60s. (CND stuff was more my thing) I never have cared for the trained approach, and I still don't.

Mind you the poor aunt must have had trouble - real folk (no don't go there!!!) was hard to find in Bournemouth at the time. I hope I wasn't too rude when I opened them.

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