very enjoyable programme - don't know if folk abroad can get bbc i-player but if you can it should help you realise that we are a very strange lot. and there are hundreds more idiosyncratic local traditions going back over the centuries. i particularly like the way that a whole town can throw small exploding fireworks at 'the pope' without it being offensive or anyone taking offense. i enjoy any expression of lingering dissent or living radicalism - (and 'tootler' i read the guardian and have never seen it sneered at there, just by lazy comedians) the folk and morris tradition is still alive and kicking