BBC rubbishes Eng. Folk again

Subject: RE: BBC rubbishes Eng. Folk again
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 25 Apr 04 - 03:31 PM

And BBC (TV) Four is remarkably good.

And for Radio, try BBC Radio Seven, which you can get online - not for folk but for long-distance repeats, stuff like the Goon Show. I'm all for repeats, when they repeat the right stuff.

Subject: RE: BBC rubbishes Eng. Folk again
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 25 Apr 04 - 03:48 PM

Yes, I was referring to Radio 3; the only BBC tv we get in North America are BBC America (a lot of re-runs, many seen on American PBS) and the BBC News channel

Subject: RE: BBC rubbishes Eng. Folk again
From: Ed.
Date: 25 Apr 04 - 03:50 PM

Well said, McGrath.

Any organisation that is attempting to please 50 million people, will obviously get lots of complaints. I find it remarkable that the BBC gets so few. In Britain, we've got the best broadcasting institution in the entire world. If you don't like it, go and live in North Korea.

Subject: RE: BBC rubbishes Eng. Folk again
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 25 Apr 04 - 03:59 PM

Countess-I wonder if you would like to name a single instance when i have said a folk performer is rubbish.

Subject: RE: BBC rubbishes Eng. Folk again
From: Ed.
Date: 25 Apr 04 - 04:22 PM

I don't suppose you have, John. You have however made numerous statements, that suggest that many well loved pastimes are vermiculous.

That tends to piss people off.

Subject: RE: BBC rubbishes Eng. Folk again
From: toadfrog
Date: 25 Apr 04 - 04:52 PM

What does it mean to say "English folk songs were not exported to America"? Does it mean, the stuff that popular 20th Century versions on the Hit Parade is more often Scottish or Irish than English? That disregards tradition focuses on contemporary pop as the only kind of "folk music" somebody ever heard of, which is sort of annoying. I think the rule is, traditional English songs went to New York and New England in the 17th and i8th Centuries and are still sung there. Scottish and some Irish songs traveled to Appalachia in the 18th Century, and strictly Irish songs mostly went to the cities, in the 19th and 20th.