'As for the complaints about Tony and una doing your radio programme, you really should have informed Tony. he might have got something from it. At the time I knew I wasn't right for your show, and told him so.

Still i think that says a lot about how far adrift folk radio is from folk clubs. I'm usually considered acceptable or pt uppable with for one song at least, in most folk clubs these more tolerant times.'

The only tyhing i can really think that i ought to add is this and this is in justice to the facts about No Fixed Abode and Jack Hudson.

In Derbyshire, whenever these people walked into a folkclub a thrill of excitement would run through the audience, because they knew they were in for some fabulous singing, Both Una Walsh and Jack Husdon have voices to die for.

And this is so at a variance with the blanket ignoring of their talents by the local BBC station.

I'm sorry your audience failed to appreciate them Dave and apparently bothered you for weeks about it. Jack is now to ill to perform - so none of his detractors in places high or low will bother you much in the forseeable future.

I despair for the future. Young Sanjay Brain is coming into the profession and has vowed to devote his life to it. His dad has brought him up with the recordings of the great coffee bar cowboys of folk - Brimstone, Lockran and Roger brooks. And he plays like a dream, 17 years old and already as good as the originals - I've tried explaining to him that nowadays its not even regarded as folk music in England. to no avail - he's going for it.